Zara Julius

Zara Julius is a transdisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg. She works primarily with sound and multimedia installation, print and social practice, often collaborating with musicians and educators. Her practice is informed by her methodology of “rapture”; asking how we might take seriously Black cultural innovation and performativity as sites of fugitivity despite enduring extractivist logics. Her work involves the collection, selection, and creation of (contested) archives — real, imagined and embodied — through extensive research projects. She is especially engaged in thinking through the archive, the death-life matrix, and the internal workings of the Black sonic, and how they may help us reconstitute Time, memory, affect, and History amid various unfreedoms and landlessness. Zara has recently released an art book project, A Funeral For…, in collaboration with Zoé Samudzi. Zara’s work is currently on show at Darat al Funun, Amman, and Wereldmuseum, Amsterdam. She is currently in the process of developing her first work for stage.

Zara holds a BAHons in social anthropology from the University of Cape Town (2014) and a MAFA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand (2021).