The poses deliberately evoke classical Greek statuary, not to imitate or criticise, but to recall and reinterpret. Classical ideals of perfection, male musculature, feminine curves, are neither idolised nor rejected. They are questioned. There is no single truth, no absolute standard. Beauty is released from its classificatory function and transformed into a fluid, mutable, identity-driven expression.

A dialogue unfolds between past, present and future, a temporal reconnection that invites us to move beyond traditional aesthetics and open ourselves to new perceptual horizons.

Dramatic tones, intense contrasts, near-monumental dimensions: everything works together to reframe our perception of the body and of subjectivity. The viewer is drawn into this new visual landscape, moving among images that carry the weight of the sacred and the pulse of revolution.

The artist’s intervention extends across sensory levels, from the visual to the olfactory,  with the creation of an artistic box for the new fragrance capsule collection Max Richter x Comme des Garçons.

Yulia Mahr is a truly multifaceted artist, whose work delves deeply into the human existential condition. She explores the profound interconnections and great dualities of life: birth and death, freedom and constraint, union and separation. Her images are emotional nerve fibres, systems of connection between bodies and consciousnesses. She dissolves exteriority as a rigid shell to reveal what vibrates beneath.

She transforms decay, what is decomposing, into fertile matter. She returns it to life, as both artistic and human gesture.