Artist Decoded By Yoshino

Yulia Bas’s artwork explores the fragmentation of contemporary individuality, healing, and the body as a somatic memory tool. Across her paintings, sculptures, and installations, equilibrating between figuration and abstraction, Yulia employs unconventional materials to explore her perception of physical and mental thresholds, transitional states, and subjective wholeness. Guided by her personal journey of transformation through body therapy and meditation as well as her immigrant background, Yulia's work embodies her experience of multiplicity of self. She searches for ways to show the tension that comes from the necessity of coexisting with different identity faucets, real, digital, and imagined ones. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Yulia and Yoshino discuss creative struggles (00:03:05) How Yulia got her start in the arts (00:06:57) The importance of micro and macro decisions in life (00:10:15) Structuring and creating order, and knowing when to break out of it (00:15:02) Negative stereotypes of being