Artist: Julia Moon - 4me4you

4me4you features "Julia Moon”.

Woman on a Chair, 2026

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ABOUT ME

4me4you visited Rhodes Contemporary Gallery, where we discovered two paintings by South Korean artist Julia Moon: Woman on a Chair, 2026 and Untitled, 2026.

MY PROCESS

Moon’s work explores the space between the body, objects and the environments we move through. Born in South Korea and raised in Canada, her experience of living between different places has shaped her interest in ideas of displacement, familiarity and change.

What immediately caught our attention was the way familiar forms seem to shift and transform. Bodies bend, break apart and sometimes appear to merge with their surroundings, making it hard to tell where one form ends and another begins. There’s a constant sense of movement, as though everything in the painting is still changing.

Her work also makes us think about how much our surroundings influence the way we see ourselves. Identity can feel fluid rather than fixed, shaped by the spaces we inhabit and the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Moon’s process reflects this idea of change. She builds, takes apart and rebuilds her images, allowing each painting to develop through layers of alterations. Nothing feels completely settled, giving the works a sense of uncertainty and transformation.

Untitled, 2026

Both Woman on a Chair and Untitled sit somewhere between the familiar and the abstract. You can recognise traces of bodies and objects, but they’ve been transformed into something less definite and more open to interpretation.

For us, that’s what makes Moon’s work so intriguing. Something familiar can suddenly feel strange, while solid forms begin to look fluid and constantly in motion. Her paintings invite you to slow down, look again and think about how we understand the body, our surroundings, objects, and even ourselves.

ARTIST: Julia Moon

Rhodes Contemporary Gallery