Julia Haumont (born in 1991) lives and works in Paris. In 2012, she entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris where she studied in the studio of Jean-Michel Alberola and ceramics with Claude Dumas. She obtained her diploma with the congratulations of the jury in 2017. Having previously studied at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, textiles also play an important role in her work.
The use of mediums mainly from the craft industry (earthenware, textile and glass) is dear to the artist because of her personal history but also because of the slow temporality they induce and which contrasts with the present time.
The young girls sculpted on a scale of 1 respond to abstract textile compositions, shaping a universe and inviting the spectator to enter it. In her hybrid installations, strength and delicacy, figuration and non-figuration are combined. This ambivalence is also found in his earthenware figures, whose innocence contrasts with sometimes impudent and lascivious postures, and in his textile compositions, where sequins, pearls and shreds are mixed together. By starting from the intimate, Julia Haumont seeks to transmit universal emotions, a kind of reminiscence of memories, lived or fantasized.
In 2022, her work was the subject of a solo show at the Iomo Gallery in Bucharest. She has also exhibited her work in Paris in the galleries Praz-Delavallade, Danysz, Romero-Paprocki, H Gallery, Da-End and was nominated in 2020 for the Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art. Her work has also been presented at the Art-Paris and Galeristes fairs.