Julie Rrap

FleshPool is a work that explores the body and its other: its shadow, its reflection. This work attempts to use technology as a mirror on itself, to push beyond the rational and explore both the sinister and the visionary in the human desire to challenge nature…

major exhibition of the work of Julie Rrap, one of Australia’s most prominent artists, brings together photography, video, sculpture and installation from the past twenty-five years of the artist’s practice. Curated by Victoria Lynn, the exhibition explores the persona of the ‘trickster’ in Rrap’s work, the theme of the ‘body double’, and considers the ways in which the artist oversteps the margins of bodily representation…

The human body is a vulnerable thing and Rrap incorporates into the present work the sinister implications of this fact. In Soft Targets, the human figure is at once elevated to an aesthetic ideal and damned as a target of willful damage and destruction or calculated military aggression. Each photograph is titled after a specific military term which reveals the high level of precision engineering employed to raise the killing efficiency of weaponry along with the tendency of things in the real world to deviate from such ideals…

Manipulating flesh for grotesque human sculpture continues to challenge artist Julie Rrap. She speaks to Megan Backhouse about her latest works…

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