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The artist Julie Rrap
Born 1950, Lismore, Australia.
Born 1950, Lismore, Australia.
Lives and works in Sydney.
Style and technique of the artist: Installation art, Video, Photography, Sculpture Objects, Sydney Biennale,
The human body is a vulnerable thing and Rrap incorporates into her work the sinister implications of this fact. 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.
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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…
Biennale of Sydney
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…
Video on YouTube
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