juliana CAPES' work explores ideas surrounding belief and the actions and symbolism that cloak it. 'Mandala' sees CAPES' creating an impermanence of pennies in the cracks of the concentric circular pavement of St Enoch?s Square, Glasgow. The cracks become receptacles of 'luck', temporary homes for the pennies whose potency will quickly become lost to the city and inevitably distributed through the hands of it's inhabitants.

CAPES is responding to the common superstitions of cracks in the pavement being a source of misfortune if accidently walked upon, but alternatively luck coming from finding money on the street. Luck is a surreptitious belief that effects us all, a subtle yet powerful faith and something few of us are able to discount entirely. CAPES is interested in what makes one belief more or less relevant or ridiculous than any other. In 'Mandala' she plays with ideas of luck and ritual, questioning whether her actions are any less devout then those of the faithful of any other faith.

juliana CAPES is interested in contemporary systems of belief, working from the surmise that the society she lives in wants to believe but can't quite manage it. Recent work has dealt with belief in love, luck and permanence, simultaneously critiquing and celebrating these concepts. She is interested in finding the space between the two activities and questioning what happens therein.

CAPES' work has often consists of installations created through an almost obsessive arrangement of ephemeral objects. Through their repitition, arrangement and massed presence, objects are imbued with meanings that go beyond their original specific and utilitarian use. CAPES is interested in the effect her interactions with these objects have on their meaning, and how significance can be imparted into the everyday.

juliana CAPES was born in 1974 and has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1997. CAPES has exhibited in Britain and abroad both in galleries and site-specific projects and has been actively involved with many artist-initiated groups and projects. Recent exhibitions include 'Loveletter's to the Sky' at Limousine Bull, Aberdeen, "Magazine" at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh 2004 and 'Pavement Astronomer' at Extension, Glasgow Art Fair 2004. She will be exhibiting at the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock in June 2005.

CAPES is a past committee member of Protoacademy in Edinburgh and a current artist member of E m e r g e D. She is also active in socially engaged contexts, including working with Edinburgh Artlink and the National Galleries of Scotland on collaborative and educational projects since 1998. Passionate about supporting artists networking, she is a member of the a-n Scotland Networking Artists Networks (NAN) advisory group and is currently coordinating a-n's partnership programme of artists? events in Scotland.