Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
April 20 - November 24, 2024, French Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words Under the light rain of a blazing fog Snakes are deaf and dumb anyway Oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
February 10 - May 21, 2023, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet
One against the other, our damaged skins, our elongated bodies. Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, ibis’ wing from the coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago, meta and universe, machete, adapted to prune sugar cane, meta and universe, a palm tree, sweeped away by the Maria hurricane, in 2017, unknown location, meta and universe, trajectories of storms in the Caribbean, during one season. Formed in the Sargasso Sea, they used to change direction when coming to North-America continent, going through the Azores., 2022
Metal, plastic, fabric, ropes, mirror parts
81 x 65 x 2 1/4 inches (205.7 x 165.1 x 5.7 cm)
Julien Creuzet, flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky
September 9 - October 29, 2022, Andrew Kreps, 394 Broadway, New York
Julien Creuzet
Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, deformed and assembled dancing bodies of Ana Pi and Calixto Neto, meta and universe, representation of a cocaine molecule, meta and universe, on the Atlantic ocean, route of the first return trip (inward) of Christopher Columbus from America., 2022
Metal, plastic, fabric, ropes
25 x 36 x 19 inches (63.5 x 91.4 x 48.3 cm)
Julien Creuzet, flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky
September 9 - October 29, 2022, Andrew Kreps, 394 Broadway, New York
Julien Creuzet
Our secrets back to back, our secrets in our romances. Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, tail of the dolphinfish (Coryphaena or Mahi-Mahi) drawn in the coat of arms of the Barbados islands, meta and universe, part of the ammonium nitrate molecule, fertilizer, meta and universe, leaves of Neurolaena lobata, «Herbe à pic» in the West Indies, known as a traditional treatment for wounds and infections, and used since 2020 against SarsCov2. Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, sargassum baciferum, floating seaweed. Due to the increase in nitrates released by the Amazon, seaweed grow in large quantities in the Sargasso Sea and are then dropped off by the currents on the Caribbean beaches, meta and universe, part of 1956 american machine that produce ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air, meta and universe, head of one of the pink flamingo drawn in the coat of arms of the Turks and Caicos islands, meta and universe, last part of the ammonium nitrate formula.
2022
Metal, plastic, fabric
102 x 74 x 22 1/2 inches (259.1 x 188 x 57.1 cm)
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia
July 2 - September 26, 2022
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank …
January 14 – March 13, 2022, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Julien Creuzet
October 6th, 2021 – January 3rd, 2022, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet
A female Negro Slave, with a weight chained to her Ankle, Blackness ou Négritude, nuances de vert de la mer (....), 2021
Plastic, metal, fabrics, wood, electrical wiring
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (200 x 200 x 20 cm)
Julien Creuzet
October 6th, 2021 – January 3rd, 2022, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet
Cassia Alata, rhum, bicarbonate ou Négritude s’écroule en part des anges, je suis fatigué (....), 2021
Plastic, metal, leaf from the forest of the Alma River, speaker, electrical wiring
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (200 x 200 x 20 cm)
Julien Creuzet
Oswald DE ANDRADE, « Manifesto Antropófago », A utopia antropofágica, São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1990, p. 47-52. Maya ANGELOU, Poems, New York, Bantam Books, 1993. Marie-Célie AGNANT, Femmes des terres brûlées, Montréal, Les éditions de la Pleine lune, 2006 (...), 2021
4K video animation
00:08:00 (looped), 00:09:16
Julien Creuzet
October 6th, 2021 – January 3rd, 2022, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin
November 19th –December 30th, 2020, Document, Chicago, Illinois
Julien Creuzet
Distant, the oral songs of youth buried, in the DNA of the bones, a little remnant, a little pain, we remember
when walking slowly in the field of old ravaging reeds, the smelll is imprinted in the most ancestral dreams
2020
Metal, plastic, pineapple
24 3/4 x 51 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches (63 x 130 x 20 cm)
Julien Creuzet, cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin
November 19th –December 30th, 2020, Document, Chicago, Illinois
Julien Creuzet
affectionate name, sun you are not the same, 2019
Metal, wood, plastic, electrical wiring, fabric, denim
118 1/8 x 35 3/8 x 19 3/4 inches (300 x 90 x 50 cm)
Julien Creuzet, Allied Chemicals & Dye
October 17th – November 30th, 2019, High Art, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, Allied Chemicals & Dye
October 17th – November 30th, 2019, High Art, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, Allied Chemicals & Dye
October 17th – November 30th, 2019, High Art, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet
The vicious snake / has always been there / to divide us / crawling, spreading /
cells of our blood (...), 2019
Metal, plastic, fabric, lace, can, string, electrical wiring, snake skin
109 1/2 x 43 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (278 x 110 x 40 cm)
Julien Creuzet, Il pleut encore, des minis gouttelettes, elles marquent le temps et le vertige des arbres. (... )
September 14th – October 20th, 2019, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet, Il pleut encore, des minis gouttelettes, elles marquent le temps et le vertige des arbres. (... )
September 14th – October 20th, 2019, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet
50/5000 Translation results affectionate name, before the dance before the gestures, 2019
Hand etched mdf, pigment, paper
74 3/4 x 55 1/8 inches (190 x 140 cm)
Julien Creuzet, Il pleut encore, des minis gouttelettes, elles marquent le temps et le vertige des arbres. (... )
September 14th – October 20th, 2019, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Julien Creuzet
affectionate name, a peptide hormone and neuropeptide, 2019
Zorb ball, VR goggles, virtual reality environment
ø 78 3/4 inches (ø 200 cm)
Julien Creuzet, Les lumières affaiblies des étoiles lointaines les lumières à LED (...)
February 20th – March 12th, 2019, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, Les lumières affaiblies des étoiles lointaines les lumières à LED (...)
February 20th – March 12th, 2019, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, Les lumières affaiblies des étoiles lointaines les lumières à LED (...)
February 20th – March 12th, 2019, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Julien Creuzet, Les lumières affaiblies des étoiles lointaines les lumières à LED (...)
February 20th – March 12th, 2019, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 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 via amalgams of sculpture, installation, and textual intervention that address his own diasporic experience, and his relationship to his ancestral home, Martinique, which he refers to as “the heart of my imagination”. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of the French Martinican writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and the events of European modernity. Creuzet’s distinctive sculptural language often repurposes found materials; relics of detritus washed ashore by oceans or the unrelenting progress of history. Throughout his work, Creuzet creates a dialogue with the question of emancipation and the legacy of the Caribbean diaspora as it exists today.
In 2024, Creuzet represented France at the 60th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale 2024, with Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer, curated by Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho. The exhibition is currently on view through June 1, 2025 at The Bell, Brown University, Providence, RI - the first site of the U.S. presentation of the project, which will tour to Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University and The Gund at Kenyon College.
In 2023, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, entitled Oh téléphone, oracle noir (...). Other past solo exhibitions include two solo exhibitions at LUMA Foundation, Arles and LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2022-2023); Camden Arts Centre (2021), CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2019), Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2019), and Fondation Ricard, Paris (2018). Creuzet has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Performa Biennial (2023), 35ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2023), 12th Liverpool Biennial; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Musée Tinguely, Basel; National Gallery of Prague; Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middletown; Manifesta 13 Marseille; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; Kampala Biennial; Gwangju Biennial. In 2021, Creuzet was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2019, he received the Camden Arts Center Prize at Frieze London.
Julien Creuzet has reimagined his French Pavillion from the 60th Venice Biennale for The Bell.
After the successful world-premiere as part of Performa 2023 in New York (November 2023) and European premiere in Amsterdam at the Dutch National Opera’s Studio Boekman, presented by Hartwig Art Foundation (June 2024), a new adaptation of Algorithm ocean true blood moves comes to Dakar. It has been specially produced for the outdoor space in front of the Ancien Palais de Justice, the DAK'ART Biennale of Contemporary African Art 2024’s main location.
Julien Creuzet represents France at the 60th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale 2024.
With Julien Creuzet accompanied by Phoebe Collings-James, Christina Kimeze, Manuel Mathieu, Bruno Peinado & Chloé Quenum
Curated by Céline Kopp et Cindy Sissokho
In his precarious yet exuberant sculptural environments, the Paris-based artist, filmmaker, and poet Julien Creuzet often delves into centuries-long histories of trade and displacement. His multimedia installations skillfully combine the debris of domestic and industrial life (plastic containers, electric cables, cellphones) with that of the natural world (soil, seashell, wood sticks) — and often, these sculptural ecosystems invoke his childhood home of Martinique, the French Caribbean island at the crossroads of African, European, and Native American civilizations.
Julien Creuzet (Le Blanc-Mesnil, França, 1986. Lives in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) develops a multi-disciplinary practice that intertwines poetic, sensory and social forms through combinations of sculpture, installation, video, sound, and textual intervention.
Julien Creuzet is included in “uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things”, the 2023 Liverpool Biennial, on view through September 17, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa.
“Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia” (2022)
Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist whose work combines experimental filmmaking, music, sculpture, performance, and poetry. Mixing language, dance, and literature, his output is extensively influenced by the history of decolonization. The title of the exhibition is an extract from a poem Creuzet himself wrote, reflecting on the relationship between peripheries and centers, questioning the idea of time and geographical location as fundamental concepts in understanding cultural production. Reacting against dominant Western narratives, Creuzet looks for inspiration in the legacy of Afro-Caribbean and Creole philosophical thought and literary production.
Julien Creuzet is a French artist whose work combines experimental filmmaking, music, sculpture, performance, and poetry. Mixing language, dance, and literature, his output is extensively influenced by the history of decolonization. The title of the exhibition is an extract from a poem Creuzet himself wrote, reflecting on the relationship between peripheries and centers, questioning the idea of time and geographical location as fundamental concepts in understanding cultural production.
