About Julia Flit
Julia Flit is a Kazakhstani artist and photographer based in London. She began her career in 2012, working internationally with leading jewellery designers and producing campaigns published across Condé Nast titles.
During the pandemic, she shifted her focus toward fine art, developing an underwater self-portrait practice that explores emotion, identity, and states of transformation. Alongside photography, Julia has expanded into a conceptual, materially driven practice, creating mixed-media installations using aluminium, silk, plaster and experimental 16mm. Her work often investigates liminality, protection, memory, and the thresholds between visibility and dissolution.
Julia is accredited by The Association of Photographers and has received multiple awards. Her fine art has appeared on the covers of ArtMuse (2025) and Lens Magazine (2024). Julia was shortlisted for ArtEvol 2025: Voices from Undefined at the Saatchi Gallery. In 2025- 2026 her digital work was participating in Wrong Biennale. She continues to evolve her interdisciplinary practice, guided by themes of vulnerability, presence, and quiet resistance.
Artist Statement
My work explores the shifting space between memory, emotion, and transformation. Through photography, physical intervention, and material experimentation, I use image-making as a way to move through my subconscious — to confront fear, process emotion, and search for deeper meaning.
A large part of my practice centres around underwater photography, where submersion becomes both a literal and psychological act. Entering water forces me to surrender control and face uncertainty, creating images that reflect liminal states — moments of transition where identity feels unstable, suspended between one version of the self and another. Water becomes both subject and collaborator, symbolising rebirth, dissolution, and the possibility of change.
Alongside this, I explore the instability of memory and perception through cutting, assembling, overpainting, and digital manipulation. I am interested in how recollections are altered, reconstructed, or replaced over time, and how an image can hold both presence and fracture simultaneously. Across my work, I often create dual-layered experiences: from a distance, an image may appear whole, while closer inspection reveals fragmentation, intervention, or hidden structures.
Influenced by metamodern thought, my practice moves between hope and despair, sincerity and ambiguity. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Ana Mendieta, René Magritte, and Yves Klein, I investigate the relationship between the visible and the obscured, the body and its environment, using visual transformation as a means of catharsis, self-examination, and continual becoming. Through this process, I invite viewers to reflect on their own inner landscapes, where memory, identity, and renewal remain in constant flux.
Exhibitions and Press
Selected Exhibitions & Fairs
Feb 2026 · TAG Gallery, Code Error Project, Los Angeles, USA
Jan 2026 · "Gardens of Life: Silent Seeds", Group exhibition, POSK gallery, London, UK
Jan 2026 · "Off script" Group exhibition LA Art Show 2026, USA
2025 · Shortlisted for ArtEvol 2025: Voices from Undefined at the Saatchi Gallery
2025-2025 · Code Error Project, The Wrong Biennale
2025 · JS Gallery by IMC, Platforms Project Independent Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2025 · Group Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2024 · Solo Exhibition, Mayfair, London, UK
2024 · “Mixed Identities”Group Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2024 · The Other Art Fair, New York, USA
2023 · Photo London, with Litehouse Gallery, UK
Awards
2025 · IPA Official selection
2025 · Honourable Mention, ITSLIQUID Contest (17th Edition)
2024 · Chromatic Awards — Hon. Mention, Fine Art (Professional)
2023 · Chromatic Awards — Hon. Mention, Fine Art & Nudes (Professional)
Press
ArtMuse, Issue 17 (2025) – Cover + Interview
Lens Magazine, Final Issue 123 (2024) – Feature Article
Tilda6 (2024) – Interview
ArtistCloseUp (2024) – Online Interview
Accreditation
Member of The Association of Photographers (UK)