Jules Chimes Gårder (they/she) is a Los Angeles based artist working across mediums to create work centered around themes of mourning, memory and sexuality. Their practice incorporates sculpture, large-scale ceramic, video, painting and performance. As someone who lost a parent as a child, Jules is interested in how embracing ongoing relationships with the dead can shift our lived experiences and recenter what we value. Born in Sweden and raised in Maine, they are interested in pushing against unrealistically expedited faux resolutions to life altering events (a flattening that is often expected in service to productivity in our contemporary world). They will graduate from UCLA with a BA in Art this Fall 2023.