Yulia Iosilzon is a multimedium artist who currently lives and works in London. She was born in Moscow in 1992 and spent most of her childhood in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her artistic works involve painting and sculpture; in a large extent, her paintings and sculptures are able to affect each other in a postive way. Yulia can feel the existence of two-dimension in the creation of sculptures and represent the joy how her imaginations becoming an existing work. She also keeps exploring the connections between the lines with sculptures. Meanwhile, inspired by Sigmar Polke, Yulia emphasised the multiple layers and transparency of her paintings. Her paintings often contain various symbols or patterns, such as plants, snakes and tattoos. The layers of the paintings are also transparent, giving the painting a sense of free-flowing.
The transparency of her artworks is contributed to the medium she adopts. Most of her current paintings are completed on transparent fabrics, while silicone pants, latex and glitter are applied to enhance their lucency. To add a sense of layer to her paintings, she starts her creation by sketching the outlines, then wait for a while before continuing with materials such as glitter or latex paint. This sense of layering gives the paintings richer informative content. When the audience appreciates the paintings, they may feel that "the painting is not restricted, but leads to another path", thus leading audiencces to immerse themselves in the world Yulia established.
This obsession with transparency also represents Yulia's own pursuit of a more straightforward creative expression. To convey her ideas more freely and honestly on the transparent fabrics, symbolic imagery in her work would repeatedly appear, represented by human faces and plants. An iconographic arsenal has been built to discuss all kinds of social issues. Viewers can often find fantastical plants (Lobster-Flowers, 2022), distorted human faces or flying wings (Saint Doves’Pond and All the Related Stories, 2020) in her paintings. The audiences could not only obtain a dreamlike feeling of being in such a fantasy world through the colorful and transparency outlooks but could also discover the hidden danger under fantasy through the layers of the paintings. It seems to be a warning against the materialistic state of contemporary society.