Juli Baker and Summer

Installation View (1)

Artemin Gallery presents our represented artist Juli Baker and Summer’s second solo exhibition in Taiwan, Fuengfah Factory, from January 10 to February 10, 2026.

Installation View (2)

Here’s the artist statement.

the melody of a teenage girl, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 141x91cm, juli baker and summer

I’ve always wanted to dress in a way that feels true to me. From childhood to my teenage years and into who I am today, fashion has been a way of exploring myself, trying on identities, emotions, and ways of being. Even when I imagine myself as an old woman in the future, I picture her through what she chooses to wear.

the dress that holds the sun, 2025, acrylic and inktense on canvas, 173×253.5cm, juli baker and summer

Studying fashion taught me that clothes are never just clothes. They carry labor, history, and the hands behind every seam. Clothes can comfort, reveal, hide, or resist.

fuengfah patch work, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 23.5x134cm, juli baker and summer

This exhibition was inspired by a documentary about Thai female garment workers (Hara jeans factory) in 1975, during a brief moment of political awakening, when student and worker movements challenged military power. Some of the women were only fourteen. They took over their factory, produced their own jeans for sale, played music, read books, and fought for fair pay. Watching it felt like a coming of age film, except the main characters were working class women and everything was real.

Fuengfah Factory, 2025, acrylic and inktense on canvas, 166x129cm, juli baker and summer

Fuengfah Factory is where these stories meet. A shared imaginary factory where dreams are woven, identities are tried on, and lives are formed between labor, resistance, and small little joys in life. Like bougainvillea growing along factory walls, bright, delicate yet resilient, it is made by the people, for the people.

Fuengfah Factory, 2025, acrylic and inktense on canvas, 166x129cm, juli baker and summer

This exhibition is a thank you letter to the workers who stitched the clothes that shaped me and to the younger versions of myself who learned who they were through what they wore.

a lady running into the wood, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 113x170cm, juli baker and summer

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