Naufel’s practice changed a lot since they started embroidering photos in 2016. Uplifting and empowering others is the connecting thread of their practice.
“Juliana uses embroidery as a reclamation of these photographs, these artiffacts of someone’s history, someone’s memory. She’s poking holes through them and suturing them, almost like fixing them, bringing the past into the future and making its present.”
— Joey Lico, Global Curator of The Cultivist