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 an artist (00:17:44)
- Allowing vulnerabilities to inform us, and tapping back into a childlike mindset (00:24:53)
- Questioning what art is and expressing oneself honestly (00:37:05)
- Taking time for rest and contemplation, and trying not to overwork the process (00:43:11)
- Yulia talks about her painting process (00:49:28)
- Yulia speaks about experimentation and stepping into performance art (01:05:13)
- Yoshino speaks about studying martial arts and observing false narratives around masculinity and femininity (01:11:47)
- Advice Yulia would give to her younger self (01:36:57)
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!