Sorcha Dallas

Julian Gothe is an artist, works as a freelance set designer in various animation studios and teaches set design at the HFF Postdam. Based on his work as a designer of backgrounds that are subordinates to the plot of the respective film project, in his artistic work he deals with designing backgrounds that become actual protagonists. Spaces, influenced by decorative art and furniture design, moving ambivalently between elegance and danger, become the scene of future events. At the same time, the background design can turn against what is in it. Since Julian Gothe presumes that a soul inhabits everything, his objects move between the figurative and the abstract, between escapist modernism and neoclassical forms. ‘Since my living situation is very constrained, I wanted to arouse the impression of expansiveness with large-surface wallpaper and carpet patterns. Unfortunately, this impression did not occur,’ as it says in the book A Family and a Fortune by Ivy Compton Burnett