Prophecies of the Land: An Exhibition by Artist-in-Residence Juls Gabs

Prophecies of the Land is a digital painting and installation project that reimagines Mount Auburn Cemetery as a living, evolving ecosystem. Through a series of suspended Fabriano paper flowers, still life paintings and media objects, Gabs envisions future ecosystems shaped by natural cycles, climate change, technological advance and human presence.

Inspired by a moment of wonder while walking through Mount Auburn with her family—when thousands of migrating tadpoles overtook the pathways—Gabs explores how the ground itself holds memory, energy, and renewal. The installation transforms the chapel into a poetic environment where the earth’s continual process of decay and rebirth becomes visible.

Blending classical painting traditions with contemporary digital techniques, Prophecies of the Land invites reflection on our relationship with nature and time. Mount Auburn becomes both subject and collaborator—a place where memory, transformation, and the future land converge.

The artwork will be displayed in the historic interior of Bigelow Chapel.

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Juls Gabs is a 25-26 Artist in Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Juls Gabs (born 1989, San Sebastián) is a Spanish artist working in Painting and Digital. She claims her education started after college in 2015 thought collaborations, residencies and studio experimentation in London, UK. She currently lives between Boston, MA and UK. Her work has been exhibited at Watou Art Festival 2023 (BE), Silvermine Art Centre (US), Vertical Crypto Art (Metaverse), Onstream Gallery (IT), Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop (UK) among others. In 2014, Gabs was awarded with the European Research of New Creative Spaces in new media, and the Revelation Artist Prize Mayte Spinola in 2019. In that same year, Gabs was recognised by Arteninformado through her inclusion on their list of ‘The 12 artist focus on the next generation’.

In 2023 she is showing a 13ft painting at Watou Art Festival 2023 commissioned by the government of Poperinge (BE). Her work Possibly Maybe is Shortlister for the National Prize Show 2023, at Cambridge Art Association, and she is the winner of the Finalist edition of Teravarna Award in Landscape. And her work “Ninfas’ Secrets” was exhibited at QUEERwerks in Silvermine Art Centre (CT).

Previous solo exhibitions were “Blending Boundaires” (Rome), “error” (London, 2020), Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop, “Daring Forest” (Madrid, 2018), and “Goodies Boobies” (Madrid, 2018).

Selected for residencies “The Columbia Residency” with Roman Road Gallery (London, 2021) and “Sommer Atelier Aschersleben” (Germany 2021), Unit 1 Radical Residency® IV (London, 2019) and “Paradise AIR” for solo Art Residency (Tokyo, 2018). Exhibited works in art fairs like “(un)fair Milano” (IT 2023), SCOPE (Miami Beach, 2018) and JustMad8 (Madrid, 2017)

She had a commission by Aston Martin F1 in 2022 and her work constitutes part of Private Permanent Collections such as Lycee Moliere (Brussels, Belgium), Merode’s Castle (Gmünd, Austria), Palast Hohenems (Austria) Milton Keynes Arts Center (Milton Keynes, UK), Contemporary Museum Mayte Spinola (Marmolejo, Spain).

Her work has been published in media channels like 99 Future Blue Chip Artists, Aston Martin F1, FAD Magazine, London Arts Events, Assemblage Magazine, Image.ie (2020) and Arteinformado, Ultima Hora Mallorca (2019).