Nöle Giulini

Imposition 4 (Snare), 2008

35 × 20 × 25 cm

Wool felt, yarn, wood

Unique, with certificate

Since the late 1980s, Giulini’s intensely material practice has focused on the discarded. Felt and lint, kombucha, cotton, trash, the minutiae and insouciance of existence. She turns these materials, growing or collecting them in self-made facilities around her home, into new fantasies of bodily recreation. Her kombucha Body Puppets and smaller Boschlings are operations to recover the body and mind, drawn from traumatic experiences these sculptures relate to past experiences of the artist and her attempt to find new life away from and outside of her own body. While they allow for the fantastical, much inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s own worlds, they are more therapeutic assistants for the body. Nöle Giulini's (b. 1958, Heidelberg) work has been shown at Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (1992); New Museum, New York (1996); Tacoma Art Museum (2008); Heiliggeistkirche, Heidelberg (2012). She lives and works in Port Townsend, US.