This period, where innocence, modesty, and exhibition intertwine, intimacy and seduction collide, is my playground and field of observation.
— Julia Haumont
Julia Haumont is a French artist, born in 1991, who lives and works in Paris. Between 2009 and 2011, she specialized in textile work at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. In 2012, she joined the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she trained in the workshop of Jean-Michel Alberola and furthered her ceramics studies with Claude Dumas.
Julia favors mediums rooted in craftsmanship, such as faience, textiles, and glass, which reflect her personal history while embodying a slow temporality, counter to the acceleration of contemporary life. Her life-sized sculptures of young girls interact with abstract textile compositions, creating an immersive universe that invites the viewer to step inside. Her hybrid installations blend strength and delicacy, figuration and abstraction. This duality is also present in her faience figures, whose apparent innocence is sometimes contrasted with bold and provocative poses, as well as in her textile compositions, where sequins, beads, and fabric fragments coexist harmoniously.
Her work was recently exhibited at the Museo Ettore Fico in Turin and at the MACC Foundation in Calasetta in 2024.