Weiche Knie
Mixed-Media Installation
2021 - Ongoing

Text accompaying the exhibition "Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains" by the curators Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer:

"Julia Lübbecke’s textile prints hang, sustain, fall, bend, stretch and float through Galerie im Turm. The large-format photographs feature delicate movements and details of bodies whose poses are not completely visible, and who have long since vanished. Lübbecke works intensively with archives. For the new work Weiche Knie, the artist visited the feminist archive FFBIZ and used her own subjective archive for research. Starting from orthopedic techniques and so-called Mahnbandagen, which still have the violence of the bodily ideals of National Socialism inscribed in them, she deals with texts and forms of resistant knowledge and practices of self-help. In the installation, attitudes and bodily postures manifest themselves, also how they sustain each other. The visual and archival impressions are set in relation to each other with sweeping movements through the space. Looking at them can trigger movement, attitude and posture."