Julie is a member of Collectif Habitante, a group dedicated to developing projects around the theme of the human relationship to the house. As a designer, Gauthron has been interested in elements of co-design and ideas and theories of collective habitation. 

She is one the artists taking part in Imagining Home – a multi-communal art exhibition presented in the Nicosia Buffer Zone exploring the idea of identity and home. For this she created a series of models and wireframe sculptures of houses, generating a typology of fragile forms as shelters. Her sculptures are intensely physically ‘embodied’ and have a direct lineage to her drawing practice. Each home resembles an imaginary, desired house. Additionally, she created two life-size metal wire drawings of houses, this time made in rebar, allowing visitors to move between their spaces, walls and doors.

Images: Julie Gauthron’s artworks for Imagining Home exhibition. Photos by: Chara Savvidou and Adonis Sergiou