Naufel’s practice changed a lot since she started embroidering photos in 2016. Uplifting and empowering messages is the connecting thread of her 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