Julia Miorin

Dinge haben sieben Leben / Nine lives of things

The Semiotic Qualities of Everyday Life

Julia Miorin’s (b. Memmingen, 1989; lives and works in Leipzig) creative practice revolves around the materiality and narrative potential of mundane objects. She questions predetermined interpretations and jettisons conventional conceptual frameworks and pragmatic contexts. The deliberate creation of novel constellations of things—also in relation to the surrounding space—opens the eye to surfaces, colors, forms, and traces of action. Miorin uncovers, transforms, or expands the stories inherent in things: paper towels become a color scale, camping mats pose in rigorously arranged folds, and peanut-butter cookies and tweezers give a tongue-in-cheek account of the ups and downs of interpersonal affairs.

Dinge haben sieben Leben / Nine lives of things is the first monograph to provide an overview of Julia Miorin’s growing oeuvre. The literary and cultural scholar Dorothee Kimmich, the writer and photographer Michèle Yves Pauty, and the art scholar and director of the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim Marco Hompes have contributed multifaceted introductions to the works.