Julia Attie

I think about people before thinking about art. I think about people always. I want their approval. I want to be the world’s best friend. I want them to feel a fraction of the joy they make me feel. I care what they think. My art is consistently concerned with those around me. When I photograph, I carefully construct spaces and characters. I project my psyche onto my subject, theirs onto mine. Through rendering those close to me, my twin sister, childhood friends, roommates, myself. I work to capture my subjects both as they are and as they want to be. I seek to display their changing personalities in different settings, resisting the notion of having a “true self.” My subjects exist as a multitude of dichotomous identities lively and bored, feminine and powerful, mysterious and plain. In my art, I want to disrupt photography’s intimate connection with capitalism through illustrating the impossibility of individualism.

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