Julia Peirone b. 1973
Virtual reality and the image-culture of social media distort reality, tend toward selfglorification, and lead to an abstract obsession with beauty. In her photography, Julia Peirone focuses on these notions in order to explore young teenagers’ search for identity. In her series, Peirone focuses on young women in search of themselves and their sexuality who are confronted by feelings of shame and vulnerability.
Through her photographic work at castings, Julia Peroine captures the frustration that young women suffer after having been imprinted by certain ideals. These are not ordinary portraits, because she focuses on the extreme demands of such castings and invites the viewer to question the subtle codes that lie within.
“My work starts from something banal, some little picture that comes to me. I think about how I can photograph it in different ways. […] So I started to take photos of it. Then even more questions arose, and I started to explore issues like shame, sexuality, failure and the surface image. The different series blend into each other. One series gives rise to another” (Julia Peirone, from the exhibition catalogue “Girls, Girls, Girls”, Göteborg Konstmuseum, 2017)
The way people appear in Peirone’s work is ambiguous, depending on how you look at it. Julia Peirone: “The girls I take pictures of are victims of gaze, but they’re also strong and have power over your gaze.”
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Diamonds Dancing
Julia Peirone 20 Aug - 19 Sep 2020(Swedish below) The idea behind the photo suite Diamonds Dancingwas born during a trip to Saint Petersburg where Peirone visited the Hermitage museum. In their vast collection numerous examples of...Read more -
One work by each artist
16 Nov - 7 Dec 2019One work by each gallery artist, exhibition curated by intern Märta Öringe for gallery weekend Stockholm 16-17th of November. Exhibition runs until the 7th of December Beth Laurin Bigert &...Read more -
At Six Gallery — Norin, Sjöberg, Göthlin, Peirone, Rupini, Retzlaff
30 Jan - 28 Feb 2019'Art is in our DNA, and we strive to redefine the role that art fills in a hotel. On January 30, we take another step in this endeavor, opening up...Read more -
NADA New York
8 - 11 Mar 2018Booth 2.12 Artists exhibited: Anastasia Ax Fia Backström Linnéa Sjöberg Julia PeironeRead more -
BIOTOP
22 - 26 Mar 2017Group exhibition during Stockholm Art Week at Biologiska museet . A collaboration between Belenius, Elastic Gallery , Stockholms Auktionsverk , Stockholm Art Week and partnership with Artworks . Free entrance...Read more -
Twisted Cherry
Julia Peirone 1 - 25 Sep 2016Vulnerability runs as a red thread through Julia Peirone’s work. The subjects performing in her photographs are often teenage girls. They are in an uncertain state of transition, when the...Read more -
Grade //// Separation
28 Jul - 21 Aug 2016Albin Looström Arvid Wretman Beck & Jung Julia Peirone Johanna Gustafsson Fürst Juan Pedro Fabra Timothy Crisp Linnéa Sjöberg Hilde Retzlaff Viktor Fordell Przemek Pyszczek Sophie Tottie Systems for transportation...Read more
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Julia Peirone – I am not blonde
January 27, 2023I am not blonde - 28/1-18/3. Norrtälje Konsthall proudly displays the artist Julia Peirone's exhibition I am not blonde. Julia Peirone's visual world is mainly...Read more -
Julia Peirone - Liljevalchs / June 3 - September 4
May 27, 2022Julia Peirone has been interested in the photographic image and what it can be since her breakthrough in the 1990s. She does not work autobiographically,...Read more