Julia Phillips: Energy Exchange, the artist’s first monograph, focuses on work created over the last decade, after Phillips moved from Germany to the United States. Texts by Daniella Rose King and Magdalyn Asimakis, as well as conversations between the artist and Janet Dees, Jamieson Webster, and Fia Backström, reflect Phillips’s interests in postcolonial studies, social belonging, diasporas, psychoanalytic theory, gender studies, and Black feminist thought. All texts have been translated into the artist’s first language, German, led by her wish to contribute to an exchange of discourse and culture between the English- and German-speaking regions in which her work is exhibited. The title describes a conceptual framework: taking its cues from Phillips’s sculptural practice, it implies something transactional, referring simultaneously to physical, mechanical, psychic, and spiritual exchange.

Published by Mousse. Hardcover, 192 pages. 8 1/4 x 11 in.

Detail Julia Phillips, Nourisher, 2022. Ceramic, medical PVC tubes, stainless steel, and steel cable, 69 1/2 x 32 x 24 in. (177 x 81 x 61 cm). Courtesy of the artist.