2019-2022

30 Polaroids in Objektrahmung

16mm Film 2:45min

Film: UFF (Performance), Georg Müller (DOP), Michelle Müller (Setdesign)

Book design: Mählerbrandt

Mentoring: Prof. Linn Schröder & Prof. Melanie Haller

Supported with funds Equality/Diversity of the Faculty DMI of HAW Hamburg

Gender is a social construct, as we express it - a performance. Drag, burlesque, queerlesque, vaudeville, cabaret, circus and acrobatic artists work with a gender performance that questions norms and thereby creates a queer space that allows freedoms beyond binary worlds. With humor, eroticism, irony and tragedy, their performance is political and queerfeminist. Nostalgia, pop culture and fashion styles flow into the performance as quotes. The Polaroid visualizes this retro-nostalgia and reminds us of the Carte de la Visite, cards with which the first burlesque actresses presented themselves in the mid-19th century.

2014-2018

Inkjetprint in wooden frame

3x 135 x 90 cm 
2x  60 x 90 cm 
4x  40 x 60 cm

Photography book, self published

Photography: Julia Gaes

Texts:Julia Gaes, apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe

Design and typography: Julia & Lilia Graf

Concept: Julia Gaes, Julia & Lilia Graf

Mentoring: Prof. Axel Grünewald & Prof. Kirsten Wagner

Connectedness with nature - displays itself in many forms. Naturists feel this directly through their naked skin. During their naked hikes through German forests, they experience feelings of freedom, originality and rebellion. An unusual form of protest in our digital age, in which nature seems ever more distant to us and in which nudity is constantly present in the media, but seems to be increasingly withdrawing from our everyday life into the role of the private. In my photographic work "Die Naturisten" (The Naturists) I document, in the context of German naturist history, a group that is part of the new nude hiking movement and at the same time question the romantic image of the human in nature.