PROJECTS | Julia Zurilla mix media artist

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Portrait of a Bather in Three Movements

Portrait of a Bather in Three Movements is a site-specific multimedia project that combines digitized 8 mm archival footage with contemporary ocean imagery to explore memory, illusion, and emotional displacement. Bodies drift across time through suspended movements between stillness and motion, constructing a dialogue between intimacy, absence, and unstable remembrance. The work was also adapted for projection on The Betsy Hotel’s public-facing ORB, extending the installation into the urban landscape as a large-scale moving image environment.
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Tide of Memory (the Vortex)

Tide of Memory (The Vortex) is a multimedia project composed of two interconnected environments: a monumental ocean projection on suspended translucent plastic and Untitled (Breathing Room), an intimate installation shaped by light, reflection, mirrors, and air. Fragments of digitized 8 mm family vacation films emerge through circular openings within turbulent seascapes, transforming memory into a fragile and unstable current suspended between nostalgia, environmental anxiety, and disappearance.
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Natural Circles: Rebirth and Ruin

Natural Circles: Rebirth and Ruin is a multichannel installation that juxtaposes digitized 8 mm family vacation footage with contemporary environmental imagery through circular projections, mirrors, sandbags, and moving image. Exploring the tension between nostalgia and ecological instability, the installation transforms the exhibition space into an immersive landscape where memory, climate anxiety, and the fragility of paradise continuously collide.
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Bonds of Belonging

Bonds of Belonging is a multimedia project composed of two installations that explore the fragility, turbulence, and resilience of family relationships through archival imagery and natural phenomena. Combining multi-channel video, family photographs, and suspended viewing devices, the project establishes parallels between emotional bonds and environmental events, portraying both as unstable ecosystems shaped by rupture, transformation, and renewal.
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Familiar Aesthetics of the Environment

Familiar Aesthetics of the Environment is a multimedia installation that combines digitized 8 mm family archive footage with contemporary environmental and disaster imagery. Through interconnected monitors, cables, and layered video collages, the work explores the parallels between family relationships and natural phenomena—both unpredictable, transformative, and at times destructive.
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Vacational Aesthetics of the Environment

Vacational Aesthetics of the Environment is a multimedia project that combines digitized 8 mm vacation archives, experimental video, circular photographs, and graphite wall drawings to explore the tension between nostalgic representations of South Florida and contemporary environmental realities. Through binocular-inspired circular framings, the project transforms memory into an immersive landscape where leisure, climate anxiety, and environmental fragility coexist.
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El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar

El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar is a multimedia project that explores memory, disappearance, and the passage of time through the movement of the sea. Composed of projected video, graphite wall drawings, animated GIFs, scroll drawings, and moving images, the installation unfolds as a visual journey from monochrome to color, where poems, waves, and drifting figures emerge and dissolve like fragments carried by the tides.
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Silent Miami

Silent Miami is a multimedia project that juxtaposes archival 8 mm vacation footage from 1920s South Florida with imagery of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Through circular framings, silent moving images, and flashes of ultramarine blue, the installation explores the tension between leisure and catastrophe, memory and technological violence, transforming nostalgia into a reflection on environmental fragility and latent destruction.
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-- .. .- .-- -..- (MIA WX)

-- .. .- .-- -..- (MIA WX) is a site-specific multimedia project that juxtaposes digitized 8 mm vacation footage, contemporary environmental imagery, and circular photographs within a site-specific layout arranged in Morse code. Exploring nostalgia, climate anxiety, and environmental transformation in South Florida, the work turns “the lifesaving language” into both a visual structure and a metaphor for urgency, communication, and survival.
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¿De qué pueden hablar los náufragos, sino del mar?

¿De qué pueden hablar los náufragos, sino del mar? is a video installation composed of two opposing monitors surrounded by sandbags commonly used for flood containment. On both screens, the looping GIF Learn to Swim endlessly repeats the phrase “LEARN TO SWIM” in split-flap airport-style lettering, evoking urgency, adaptation, and survival. The installation reflects on environmental instability, displacement, and the constant negotiation between catastrophe and resilience.
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JULIA ZURILLA

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