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AD 277 | Yulia Bas
Portrait by Jonathan Matthey
Yulia Bas’s artwork explores the fragmentation of contemporary individuality, healing, and the body as a somatic memory tool.

Across her paintings, sculptures, and installations, equilibrating between figuration and abstraction, Yulia employs unconventional materials to explore her perception of physical and mental thresholds, transitional states, and subjective wholeness.

Guided by her personal journey of transformation through body therapy and meditation as well as her immigrant background, Yulia's work embodies her experience of multiplicity of self. She searches for ways to show the tension that comes from the necessity of coexisting with different identity faucets, real, digital, and imagined ones.


Topics Discussed In This Episode:
  • Yulia and Yoshino discuss creative struggles (00:03:05)
  • How Yulia got her start in the arts (00:06:57)
  • The importance of micro and macro decisions in life (00:10:15)
  • Structuring and creating order, and knowing when to break out of it (00:15:02)
  • Negative stereotypes of being an artist (00:17:44)
  • Allowing vulnerabilities to inform us, and tapping back into a childlike mindset (00:24:53)
  • Questioning what art is and expressing oneself honestly (00:37:05) 
  • Taking time for rest and contemplation, and trying not to overwork the process (00:43:11) 
  • Yulia talks about her painting process (00:49:28)
  • Yulia speaks about experimentation and stepping into performance art (01:05:13)
  • Yoshino speaks about studying martial arts and observing false narratives around masculinity and femininity (01:11:47) 
  • Advice Yulia would give to her younger self (01:36:57)

yuliabas.com
instagram.com/yulia__bas

Posted 4.29.2025


About

"I started this series as a means for exploration, an exploration of self, and an exploration of the perspectives of other artists.

This series is an unabridged documentation of conversations between artists. It’s a series dedicated to breaking down the barriers we tend to set up in our own minds. I want to inspire future creatives to have the courage to explore and experiment. This is about making dreams a reality and not about letting our dreams fall to the wayside.

My intention is to give my audience a sense of real human connection, something that feels rich and organic.

When I was thinking of a title I thought of the word “movement”.

In relation to the Renaissance period in art, my goal for this program is to signify a rebirth of consciousness towards the way we look at contemporary art."

- Yoshino
Contact

info@artistdecoded.com