Installation view of Julien Creuzet, Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank…, at Camden Art Centre, 2022. Photo by Rob Harris.
Recent works by Julien Creuzet
French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet multi-disciplinary practice interweaves poetic, sensory and social forms. Born in a Parisian banlieue, Creuzet grew up in Martinique and now lives and works in Paris.
He places his own lived experience at the heart of his practice whilst allowing the work to shine a light on collective social realities of the Caribbean diaspora, focusing on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and the events of European modernity.
Creuzet describes his ancestral home, Martinique, as “the heart of my imagination” and the visual and aural languages that collide in his installations migrate and transform through a process of creolisation, entering into a dialogue with the question of emancipation, a spirit of black affirmation and the feeling of the Caribbean diaspora as it exists now.
Recent Exhibitions
Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank…
January 14–March 25
The Language is Common
September 14–December 12, 2021
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021
October 6, 2021–January 3, 2022
“Above all, this formal hybridization links Creuzet to the latest generation of artists for whom boundaries between mediums do not exist and for whom the very notion of medium specificity belongs to the archaeology of the artistic field, having been replaced by perfect porosity.”
–Pascale Krief, “Julien Creuzet’s
Complex Work: Plastic Poetics, Landscapes, Hybridizations”
Flash Art, 2022.
Bio
Born in 1986, 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 frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity.
Creuzet has had solo exhibitions at the Camden Art Centre (2022), Centre Pompidou for the Prix Marcel Duchamp (2021), Document (2020), Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2019), CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (2019), Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (2018), and Bétonsalon, Paris (2018). He has participated in group exhibitions including the Wesleyan University Museum of Art (2021), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (2021), and Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris (2020). Creuzet has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery and group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
He is included in the collections of the Kadist Art Foundation, Centre Pompidou, Fondation Villa Datris, Fondation d ’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Frac Normandie Rouen, Frac Normandie Caen, Frac Grand Large-Hauts-de-France, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Frac Île-de France, Frac Aquitaine, and FRAC.
Recently, Creuzet participated in the Momenta Biennale de L’image (2021), Frestas Triennial Sao Paolo (2021), Manifesta 13 (2020), the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), the 6th Rennes Biennale (2018), FIAC (2018), the 11th Biennale Africaine de la Photographie (2017), the 14th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017), and the Festival Hors Piste at the Centre Pompidou (2017).
Creuzet is also the recipient of the 2021 BMW Art Journey Award and the 2019 Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze.