Julieta Gil

Julieta Gil (b. 1987) is a Mexican artist whose work explores the relationships between space, memory and materiality through diverse media. Her recent interests focus on documenting sites where imposed narratives are confronted by collective forms of telling and remembering.

Understanding technology as an extension of her creative process, Gil investigates ways of generating meaning through it. Her work often begins with routine walks, closely observing and documenting her surroundings. Her most frequent system of recording is a photogrammetric scanning procedure, traditionally used to create 3D models that simulate physical objects. Through this process, she devises methodologies that register and catalogue her bodily interaction with these objects, reconfiguring and materialising them into works that function as vessels of archives and memories.

In 2020, Gil received the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology for her project Nuestra Victoria, conceived as a response to government censorship around a prominent Mexico City monument that had become a site of protest and intervention by feminist groups. Gil has exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Museo Tamayo, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Centro de Cultura Digital, among other institutions. She has taught in UCLA’s Media Arts programme and has been Art & Tech Visiting Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon. Her work is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum collection.