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The Church of Our Becoming: Courtyard, Dover Street Market Paris

24 Juli - 24 August 2025

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The Church of Our Becoming
Courtyard, Dover Street Market Paris 24 Juli - 24 August 2025

The Church of Our Becoming reclaims and reimagines classical ideals of the human form in Greek statuary. Photographed with a thermal camera, known for its usage by the military, which sees heat and probes beneath the skin. Mahr’s portraits instead capture the radiance of living bodies — trans, non-binary, otherwise fluid, or not at all — rendering equality as energy, not category and encouraging a more expansive and inclusive vision of humanity.

The installation presents a series of thirteen portraits, each standing up to three and a half meters tall. Positioned along the pillars of Dover Street Market, these quietly imposing figures draw on the gestures of classical sculpture. Together, they create a contemplative passage through the space, inviting viewers to move among them and engage with the work on an intimate scale.

Dover Street Market Paris / 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75004 Paris
IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE WORLD THAT COUNTS. - YULIA MAHR

Yulia Mahr is a British Hungarian interdisciplinary artist born in 1967. Her practice encompasses multiple mediums, embracing innovative and experimental creative processes. Influenced by a life marked by geographical displacement, Mahr’s personal history is infused into her artistic practice. Spanning lens-based work, sculpture and installation, and dissolving boundaries between creative disciplines, Mahr explores the intricacies of human existence. From transformative states like birth and death to themes of the body and gender, her work examines human interconnectedness, revealing what unites us from the cellular level to other species and the universe.

Influenced by visual anthropology and socially conscious art, Mahr sees art as a powerful tool for questioning, conversation, and understanding in the digital age. Her work addresses the politics of representation, modes of display, and questions of ownership, often reflecting her academic background in politics, history, and visual anthropology. Combined with her experience in theatre, this interdisciplinary foundation enables her to engage with the complexities of representation and human experience.
In addition to her artistic practice, Mahr Co-Founded and serves as Co-Artistic Director of Studio Richter Mahr alongside Max Richter. Situated within 31 acres of Oxfordshire woodland, the minimalist, sustainably focused studio functions as a multidisciplinary incubator. This state-of-the-art space fosters individual creative focus and communal connectivity, offering artists-in-residence writing rooms, a recording studio, and a collaborative environment reminiscent of iconic creative communities like Khala Bhavana, Black Mountain College, and Bauhaus.
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  TEN'S TO SEE: "YULIA MAHR: THE CHURCH OF OUR BECOMING" AT DOVER STREET MARKET PARIS
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  In 'The Church of Our Becoming', on view at the Courtyard at Dover Street Market Paris, Yulia Mahr celebrates real human bodies
  Yulia Mahr digs beneath the skin in her modern update of classic Greek statues in Paris
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IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE WORLD THAT COUNTS. - YULIA MAHR

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The Church of Our Becoming: Courtyard, Dover Street Market Paris

The Church of Our Becoming

IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE WORLD THAT COUNTS. - YULIA MAHR

NEWS

10 Magazine

WALLPAPER

STUDIO INTERNATIONAL

'My work is more akin to poetry. It’s a moment of sensory storytelling’Read more

'My work is more akin to poetry. It’s a moment of sensory storytelling’
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