In her artistic practice, Julia Lübbecke examines the relationships between body, institution and affects, as in her installative work Weiche Knie (2021-ongoing). In this work, Lübbecke combines content from her research in queer-feminist archives on the topic of care with her own photographs and adresses relationships and forms of touch that we need and desire in order to enable other forms of caring.
Two of her photographs, Untitled (2022) and Evelyn Posamentier in Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly, 1978 (2022) are currently available as a Jahresgabe/Edition at KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen. Lübbecke was part of the group exhibition Reproductive Matters at the KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen in 2024, curated by Nadja Quante.
Untitled is part of a series in which Lübbecke continuously develops and stages gestures together with people close to her, such as friends or allies. She develops these based on the question of which postures, movements and relationships are desired and needed in moments of vulnerability.
The second photograph, Evelyn Posamentier in Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly, 1978, is a photograph of the poem Sharon, in the Field by Evelyn Posamentier. The quote poetically reflects the violent impact of misogynistic medicine in the field of psychology. The poem first appeared in the magazine Chrysalis, a formative publication of so-called second wave feminism in the USA, where Audre Lorde worked as poetry editor for the poetics section. Feminist movements of the 1970s and 80s are closely interwoven with resistance to, and the visualization of, violence against female bodies in conventional medicine. In response to this, feminist health centers were founded and self-help practices developed. In the photograph, Posamentier’s poem is quoted from the book Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly.