
Julia Goska
Artista
Gdańsk, Poland
Biografia
Textile artist, art historian, and PhD candidate at the Academia Artium Humaniorum Doctoral School of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. The artistic practice develops alongside academic research, focusing on the relationships between nature, organic structures, and contemporary textile sculpture.
The works are created using free-motion embroidery, a technique in which thread ceases to function as a decorative element and becomes an autonomous sculptural medium. The starting point lies in the structures found in the plant world inflorescences, seeds, tissues, and microscopic biological systems. Rather than reproducing nature, these forms serve as catalysts for the creation of new speculative life forms.
The resulting objects take the shape of futuristic plant hybrids and organic creatures that exist somewhere between botany, microbiology, and extraterrestrial matter. Their origins remain deliberately ambiguous: they may be organisms from a distant future, remnants of an unknown evolution, or entities that have always coexisted with humanity, hidden beyond ordinary perception. Natural structures are enlarged to an unnatural scale, losing their original function and transforming into autonomous beings. These sculptures imagine alternative ecosystems where the boundaries between plant, organism, and artificial entity dissolve. Through embroidery, thread becomes a tool for constructing new biological possibilities and envisioning forms of life that may one day inhabit our planet or perhaps already do.




