Julia Silye is a Budapest-based contemporary artist working across figurative ceramic sculpture, painting and mixed media. Her expressive, cartoon-inspired visual language shares an affinity with the humor, irreverence and grotesque figuration associated with Funk Art. Through this language, she explores religious iconography, psychology, female experience, motherhood, Eastern European identity and contemporary social life.
“For a long time, I thought I was engaged in many different things. Today, I realize that, in fact, I have always been interested in the same thing: the human being…”
