“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.” (Ways of Seeing, BBC, 1972)

In the work of Julia Yerger, seeing is never unpicked or resolved by attendant language. Her works are sticky to the ocular touch. They are distinctly limbic creatures, asking only to be seen but are hard to see and this inscrutability sets on course a restless engagement with them. Invitation and refusal seem to be issued in tandem.