"Everything is interwoven"

‘Délicatesse des couleurs’, the tenth exhibition in Salzburg’s Hangar-7, presents young artists from France. Critics have described Julie Polidoro’s work as ‘x-rays of reality’. In an interview she discloses a few details about her paintings.

Firstly, please give us a few details about you: What do you like, what can’t you stand, and what do you laugh about the most?

I love being in nature – and I try as much as I can to live in the here and now.

Which three artists – also from different genres if you like – touch you?

To name three isn’t enough: Rothko, Paolo Ucello, Tom Sachs, Diane Arbus, David Hockey and Sigmar Polke.

What do observers of your art usually notice first … ?

The multi-facetedness of the approach and outcome. I don’t have an angle; there isn’t a center; no hierarchy. The eye never stops on one spot; the painting is as neutral as it is sensual, a cartography of data.

... and what makes it characteristic in your opinion?

What I’ve constructed are apparatuses with an inbuilt coincidence. My current work is about the subject of non-separation. I connect very different areas. Only language separates things; in reality everything is interwoven.

Please give us some insight into the working environment where most of your works are created. Is it sterile or chaotic; quiet or full of life?

It’s loud, and I have material in every corner of the room.

Please choose one of your exhibited works and describe in a few words how it developed and what the idea behind it is.

“Zebra and Cow” (2005, 140 x 135 cm) is the interaction between the visual and the non-visual. The reflection of a zebra metamorphoses into a bull – a symbol of non-stoppable change.

What would be the ideal feeling or awareness that observers leave the Hangar-7 exhibition with?