Julia Yintong Fung

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Julia Fung is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across mixed-media installation, sound, and the moving image. Their practice explores human relationships with the cosmos and the natural environment, investigating the dimensions of planetary deep time in relation to materiality and the body. Fung also crafts immersive, theatrical environments that interrogate technology-driven identities and our specific locality on Earth within the vastness of the universe. Driven by the concept of “myth-science” as a fictioning process, Fung utilizes the transitional qualities of liquid materials—such as wax, metal, and glass—alongside playful elements like inflatables to capture the elemental shifts of the natural world. Their practice maps how cosmic rhythms regulate human biology and agricultural labor, offering a critical genealogy of “chronopolitics” to challenge how standardized, colonial time has historically mandated environmental extraction. By transforming existing spaces through unsettling soundscapes and architectural shifts, Fung disorients the audience’s ordinary sensory routines, inviting them into a pluralistic, multidimensional experience of time that fosters alternative futures for our relationship with the Earth.

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