Opening on Saturday, May 21th 2016 from 2pm to 9pm
21.05 – 09.07.2016
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Julien,
I’m writing to you from your homeland, in the 93, you left it quickly to grow up in the archipelagos and then came back. You crossed the oceans a number of times, lengths of seas, roads, trails, rails, branches, tunnels. From these crossings, you’ve kept the rhythm of internal movements, a way of linking things together, passing from here to there, between you and the island and the town where you live, between your hand and the objects that you hold, between you and those to whom you are ceremoniously addressing an artwork. Here too you collect shells, driftwood, you cut shorts, you engrave poems into wood, you film and edit on your telephone, you couple with madonnas, you dissolve the images of the universe that you speak to from your window, a train, a path.
Your nearby and faraway godmother
Wait I have to run now, later…
Balata, at the bottom of the earth
underneath,
near to the hardy roots.
Balata, in beautiful headiness,
from the treetops.
Down below, in the sediments,
dry sandstone, archive of time;
dust.
It rained, on the muddy mass,
rocky breasts, suffocating expanse.
Dust,
and if all of this was afterwards,
red cuttings of press,
bitter pressure.
This suffocating heat.
I am not speaking of the oncoming summer,
It’s already too late
for the capsized vessel.
In the swell,
my heart danced a tango.
They set fire to the pavilion (Savare),
to make the migrants flee,
on the peninsula,
will it appear ?
How can we know,
the why of the hot embers ?
Jangal (…) my dawa.
It is my problem,
I will always be the other,
in the forest.
As regards, your language.
Do you really want to know ?
Why do they think,
that I am going to ask them for money ?
Do you really want to know why
these people do not want to sit,
beside me ?
I am this pile of stories,
without incidence.
Because you are still here.
I am this old piece of wood,
mahogany from Cuba,
and even though I am in your here,
I am of a rare density.
Well before the sun of war,
before these salafist masks,
before Castro, before the embargo.
I am of a rare density, tangled,
Because I learned to see,
through the thick jungle.
To reveal, the insect sitting on the branch.
Balata, at the bottom of the earth
underneath,
near to the hardy roots.
Balata, in beautiful headiness,
from the treetops.
Should have left the sky
the remains of this sparse star at the break of day.
Should have left the centre,
of the belt that cuts us in half,
above and below.
Should have found the shortest point,
to be thrown outside,
as far as possible from this inhuman time,
that hides our atmosphere. (…)
Emilie Renard and Julien Creuzet
Julien Creuzet, Eat to eat (…), 2016, carving, melamine wood, plastic bottle, water, euro cents, copper alloy, variable installation, 148 x 92 cm, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, D’une intensité, cyan,(…), 2016, voitive sculpture, jean trousers, cassis-cornuta seashell, vase, food coloring pigments, vegetal pearls, drifwood, wood, indigo industrial painting, (several fluids), poem poster, 149,5 x 79,5 cm, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Multiple (…), 2016, carving, melamine wood, 44,7 x 42,5 x 1,5 cm, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Face to face (…), 2016, carving, melamine wood, 44,7 x 43,5 x 1,5 cm, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Allons au loin, (…), 2016, photographic printing on wood, metal, roop, plastic, vegetal fiber,
grains necklace, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece
ans les profondeurs de Lam, (…), 2014, poem – title, loop video, colour, sound, 4’21”, poem poster, edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
Note de bas de page, 2016, yellow paper sheets, text from internet, electric wires, 9 pages, digital file,
variable installation, variable dimensions, edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
Mon ami débris, (…), 2016, Cuba mahogany, fireproof agglomerated wood, rosewood, colon statue, tape, rope,
10 cents coin from 1938, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece
Face to face (…), 2016, carving, melamine wood, 44,7 x 43,5 x 1,5 cm, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Dans les profondeurs de Lam, (…), 2014, poem – title, loop video, colour, sound, 4’21”, poem poster, edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP.
Julien Creuzet, Allons au loin, (…), 2016, photographic printing on wood, metal, roop, plastic, vegetal fiber, grains necklace, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Mon ami débris, (…), 2016, Cuba mahogany, fireproof agglomerated wood, rosewood, colon statue, tape, rood, 10 cents coin from 1938, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Note de bas de page, 2016, yellow paper sheets, text from internet, electric wires, 9 pages, digital file, variable installation, variable dimensions, edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Morose, os, (…), 2016, oak sapwood, painting, red food coloring, poem poster, variable installation,
377 x 4 x 4,5 cm, unique piece
Multiple (…), 2016, carving, melamine wood, 44,7 x 42,5 x 1,5 cm, unique piece
Note de bas de page, 2016, yellow paper sheets, text from internet, electric wires, 9 pages, digital file, variable installation, variable dimensions, edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Vital mouvement, (…), 2016, African walnut tree veneer, drying rack, water carrying statue, the maker invokes those gods, (picture), poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Vital mouvement, (…), 2016, African walnut tree veneer, drying rack, water carrying statue, the maker invokes those gods, (picture), poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Opéra-archipel, je voulais danser comme elle, belle berbère (…) (Madonna loop), 2015, HD video, loop, 16 : 9, color, mute, 6’01’’, edition 2 of 5 + 2 AP.
Collection National Contemporary Art Funds – National Centre for Plastic Arts, France.
Jangal (…) mon dawa, 2016, electric wire, rope, clock weights, jam pot, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Moi seul, 2016, venge wood veneer, sapele wood veneer, melamine wood, spray painting, plastic, several food packing lids, variable dimensions, unique piece
Je vais faire le vide au milieu de la vie. (…), 2016, ash tree veneer, Rio’s rosewood veneer, tape, plastic, red food coloring, glass, grains necklace, metal, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece.
Opéra-archipel, je voulais danser comme elle, belle berbère (…) (Julien Creuzet loop), 2015, HD video, loop, 16 : 9, color, sound, 8’42’’, edition 2 of 5 + 2 AP.
Collection National Contemporary Art Funds – National Centre for Plastic Arts, France. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Moi seul, 2016, venge wood veneer, sapele wood veneer, melamine wood, spray painting, plastic, several food packing lids, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, Je vais faire le vide au milieu de la vie. (…), 2016, ash tree veneer, Rio’s rosewood veneer, tape, plastic, red food coloring, glass, grains necklace, metal, poem poster, variable dimensions, unique piece. Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, HD video, format 16 : 9, sound, colour, 20’, ddition 2 of 5 + 2 AP.
Collection Regional Contemporary Art Funds of Basse Normandie, France.
Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, HD video, format 16 : 9, sound, colour, 20’, ddition 2 of 5 + 2 AP.
Collection Regional Contemporary Art Funds of Basse Normandie, France.
Photo © Aurélien Mole
Julien Creuzet, HD video, format 16 : 9, sound, colour, 20’, ddition 2 of 5 + 2 AP.
Collection Regional Contemporary Art Funds of Basse Normandie, France.
Photo © Aurélien Mole
Exhibition view. Photo © Aurélien Mole
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