Julia Kollewe

Disembodied voices; nameless streets
Spanning video, performance, sculpture, installation and drawing, my work is concerned with light and space, sound and story-telling.
In videos of theatre plays and live performance, notable for their absence of actors, the show is stripped bare and relies on disembodied voices and abstract light shapes to tell a story.
By mapping space through light and sound and fragmenting narrative, the work creates a sense of dislocation and unease. A sculptural space emerges in which the virtual becomes physical.
Large-scale outdoor maps, based on cut-out city streets, draw on Jorge Luis Borges’ legend of an empire whose cartographers ‘struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it’.
The boundary between fact and fiction, the real and the unreal, is blurred.