Julia Rometti

– casa wabi 2022

Community Project

The project consisted of creating a public space where the passage of time can be observed both in a linear and cyclical manner. A total of 54 guayacán trees were planted in a specific design created by Rometti for that particular location. With Guayacanes en flor (Blooming Guayacán Trees), the aim is to utilize a public space that can generate reflections related to the Japanese concept of hanami (flower watching), enjoying the ephemeral and cyclical moment of tree blossoms that mark the passage of time.


The project also seeks to establish a connection with the future through the growth of the trees, projecting ourselves and caring for a space that will transform in the coming decades. Located at the Multiple Attention Center in Río Grande, the guayacán forest/garden coexists with Paula Cortázar’s project, mutually reinforcing the importance of caring for and enjoying this species.

Log-Piece

France

lives in Mexico City

Julia Rometti (France, 1975) lives in Mexico City, where she settled a few years ago after wandering through many different geographies.
This erratic period has defined the beginning of her artistic practices, during which she has been using flexible techniques like images (photography, film, collages), ready made or found objects, to approach non-western ontologies through fiction or speculation. During the last decade she has been developing a body of works in collaboration with Victor Costales around the questions of human / non human, nature and culture.
Being settled in Mexico, her practices opened to other techniques, working with the knowledge of craftsmanship like metal casters, palm weavers, or stone carvers. She extended her interests to the questions of naturecultures, materiality, conditions and agencies. Julia Rometti allows herself to be carried away by the dialogue she establishes with the materials and conditions she collaborates with, unfolding a cosmology that discovers in nature a space of political inscription.
She has been showing as Rometti Costales at Museo Jumex, Mexico; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain; SAPS Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico ; Centre d’art contemporain laSynagogue de Delme, France; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA; and Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco. Their work has been included in group shows in Kadist, San Francisco, USA; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; MAMM,Medellin, Colombia; Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain; SITElines, Santa Fe, USA; 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador; and CRAC Alsace, France.
Since 2021 she has been developing a solo practice that took place at Gapado air residency, South Korea; Nordenhake gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico.
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