LUNITA JULY-DORN | Numéro Berlin

Layers of (Paint) the Present: An interview with Lunita July-Dorn by Marcus Boxler

From all directions, the same piercing pair of eyes stare back. Sometimes surrounded by abstract, sometimes by concrete elements: teeth, flowers, suns, wings, books, cigarettes. Very often cigarettes. The young woman to whom these piercing eyes belong remains a compositional constant in Lunita July-Dorn’s paintings. This woman is herself. But these paintings are not self-portraits. While visiting her Berlin studio — where only six paintings are present — we are interrupted multiple times. How everything connects, the painter explains herself.