Julien CREUZET

Nationality: French

Born in 1986 in Le Blanc-Mesnil (France), Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices through compositions of sculptures, installations, and textual interventions that address his own diasporic experience and his relationship to Martinique, his ancestral land, which he describes as the "heart of my imagination." Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of French Martinican writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet's work focuses on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and events of European modernity. Disregarding global narratives and cultural reductionism, Julien Creuzet's work often highlights anachronisms and social realities to construct irreducible objects. Like relics from the future brought ashore by an ocean tide, Creuzet's works materialize as amplified testimonies of history, technology, geography, and self. His work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the LUMA Foundation in Zurich. He has also exhibited at the Camden Arts Centre in London (2021), the CAN Centre d'art in Neuchâtel (2019), the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2019), and the Fondation Ricard in Paris (2018). Julien Creuzet has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Manifesta 13 in Marseille (2020). After receiving the Camden Arts Centre prize in London in 2019, he was nominated two years later for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. He will represent France at the Venice Biennale 2024.

1 MOVIE IN DISTRIBUTION

LES MAINS, NÉGATIVES
2012 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 15' 09 / 60 €
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