June 22 - August 19, 2023
From Unchained.Art:
“Juliette’s aesthetic universe opens to you on June 22nd with her first US solo exhibition in Austin. Her world, both fascinating and poetic, is inhabited by expressive, majestic, and mystical women, caring insects, large observing eyes, exuberant plants and plenty of animals.
Juliette is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, born in Paris who has been creating and exhibiting for over 30 years, integrating painting, drawing and art jewelry.
The body of work presented are messages delivered in ink on rice paper, an ode to the equilibrium of existence.
The scenes that unfold, at first sight, seem simple, playful, then become tinged with more complex allusions, feminist, or ecological themes, but above all with the torrent of life’s emotions, of the relationships that the characters have with each other, and which are mixed with their inner feelings. Juliette’s characters have an indigenous, pure and natural feel about them. A beautiful innocence that stands in contrast to the artists societal challenges.
Her work explores in a sometimes provocative way the notions of femininity, courage, vulnerability and power. The artist questions the functioning of society, its codes, and the role that women play in it. She addresses maternity, the family and transgenerational relationships.
She also evokes themes such as climate change and the problem of future generations who will have to grow up in this highly fragile and complex environment.
Free from any academic constraint or pragmatic reasoning, her artistic approach, instinctive and visionary, is based on her creativity, spontaneity and the emotional charge that presides over the act of creation.
Alternating between figurative, subtly naive paintings and more abstract, almost organic creations, everything is charged with an enchanting, persistent essence that seems to inhabit her characters, as if irradiated with an incandescent energy. Her complex work, free of all concessions, confronts us with the emotions of our human condition, our relationship with others and with the universe that surrounds us.
After painting mainly with acrylics in the past, Juliette now uses Chinese or Indian ink on Xuanzhi rice paper, coming back to her roots, and her first love for the Chinese painting that she first discovered in the late 70’s, when she was living in North China during her childhood.
The artist about herself:
“I have a language which is more archaic than the spoken word. It is painting. I communicate with emotions, not with words. I would not be able to verbally express what I say in most of my paintings.”
Education
MA History of Art and Archeology – Sorbonne University, Paris
Atelier de Recherche Picturale – Patrice de Pracontal Paris
Jewelry Technics, Catarina Silva’s Atelier – Lisbon, Portugal
Traditional and Contemporary Chinese painting with Lim Choon Jin
Lasalle School of Fine Art – Singapore
Schule fuer Gestaltung, Kursteilnehmerin with Anna Amadio – Basel, CH”
Reception: June 22, 2023 | 4–8 pm
1601 East Cesar Chavez Street, Unit 101
Austin, 78702 Texas
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