Julia Haumont works with materials traditionally associated with craft—earthenware, glass, and textiles—chosen both for their intimate connection to her personal history and for the slow, deliberate temporality they embody, which contrasts with the accelerated pace of contemporary life. Her life-sized sculptures of young girls engage with abstract textile compositions, creating immersive environments that invite viewers to enter and explore. In her hybrid installations, she balances opposing forces: strength and fragility, figuration and abstraction, innocence and provocation. This duality is evident in her earthenware figures, where delicate features coexist with mischievous or audacious postures, and in her textile pieces, where sequins, pearls, and fabric remnants are layered to create complex, tactile surfaces. Starting from intimate experiences, Haumont seeks to evoke universal emotions and memories, both lived and imagined. She constructs her own poetic playground, animated by ceramic and glass objects, anthropomorphic figures, and sea-inspired forms, while textile collages delineate the edges of her imagined cosmos. Through these works, she invites the viewer to navigate a world at once whimsical, intimate, and reflective—a universe where materials, forms, and textures resonate with memory, narrative, and emotion. ...
