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Juliana Zepka is a French-Brazilian artist. She lives and works in Paris.


Her work explores the spectral and memorial dimensions of the image and the archive in the context of their policies of reproduction, digitalisation and restitution. In 2022, after finishing her degree at the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam), she wrote a manifesto on the anarchive as keystone of her artistic research: the study of the archive through its blank pages, through the invisible, the fictional, the anonymous, the forgotten. She also works on request to create visual content (graphics, web design, video) for artists, cultural institutions and associations.

A homely environment

Video, images d'archives, son

4 minutes

2021

A homely environnement is a retrospective visual homage to the former MC Slotervaart hospital (Amsterdam), temporarily transformed into artists' studios in 2020. After a long period of adaptation to the building’s past, the familiarity and comfort acquired in the studio spaces following its reinvestment have transformed it into a practical, everyday environment, an atypical and temporary home.


Through a narrative composed solely of archival images and slide projector sound, this essay shows the space in its original configuration and was inspired by the cohabitation with the remnants of furniture scattered throughout the empty rooms and with the last remaining staff members after the institution's bankruptcy in October 2018, guardians of a fallen site.


Photographic archive from the book Slotervaart Ziekenhuis, printed in Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen.