In Julie Hayward’s sculptures two contrary aspects come together – the organic and the technical-mechanical. She uses various materials to create technoid objects that resemble something right out of science fiction. Inner processes and psychological phenomena find expression and existential issues addressed. The unconscious is given an almost constructive form. Certain things come to light, yet something always remains vague and cannot be precisely named. Thus ambivalent feelings are evoked, unconscious fears aroused. Humor and irony are used to offset these effects – these two elements also being important aspects of Julie Hayward’s strange creations.
Both pieces, "home on legs" and "Kitzelkorsett" (tickle corset) merge the formal, playful and comic aspect with a combination of pink, skin-coloured patent leather and black materials. The sweet, pleasing effect of pink is broken with the fetish-aesthetics of leather and black plush.
"home on legs" is a pink-coloured, elevated object which looks like a stretcher with air holes. This piece is based on a horror scenario. The perforated box occupies exactly the space that the artist fills when she sleeps on her side. This small space clad with soft plush can be penetrated any time by hands reaching in through the holes. Desire and the illusion of a place of refuge – which, however, stands in very shaky ground – visualize the theme of personal boundaries and delineation.

The "Kitzelkorsett" recalls a corset that has lost its shape, which has just been unfastened. This object made of pink imitation leather and black plush which could represent a mix of an over-sized piece of clothing and an apparatus in which it is hard to see where top and bottom are and to recognize the function it fulfils – all of this evading any attempt at definition.