Julien Creuzet (b.1986, FR) is a visual artist, video-maker, performer and poet. In his multimedia environments, he explores different cultural heritages by organising passageways between imaginaries of elsewhere, the social realities of here and now, and forgotten minority histories. By associating different temporalities and geographies, and preferring anachronisms and collusion over the simplicity of established tales, Creuzet evokes registers of life and technology, history and myth, poetry and politics.
Julien Creuzet
Là-haut,
Nos aïeux
Dans nos yeux
words come from far away
from my ancestral memory
astral, sky, I’m not alone
on the way anymore
(…) , 2020
sound piece, plaster, fabric, metal, pearl
Music: Julien Creuzet
Voices: Makeda Monnet and Julien Creuzet
Sound mixing: Jean Thevenin
Editing : Sofia Dati Translation : David Malek
Graphic design : Elliot Gaillardon
Comissioned by Manifesta 13 Marseille
Courtesy of the artist and High Art Paris
As a continuation of the Opera Archipelago project started in 2014 at La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art in Noisy-le-Sec, Julien Creuzet takes apart the elements that make up an opera – voices, sets, costumes, dances, music, scenes, booklets – then reassembles them into fragmentary artistic forms spanning a programme of gestures, performances, lectures, films and sculptures.
At the Conservatoire of Music, Julien Creuzet proposes a sonic and visual ecosystem composed of two voices, two bodies, two sculptures. Music plays a special role in this project as the pretext for an imaginary epic poem. It portrays the conditions and intimacies of African descendants living in French territory. The sculptures become ectoplasmic remains. Suspended, hung, sewn – we don’t really know anymore. They are, perhaps, distant reminiscences, dancing in the open air to music that’s half pop, half lyrical, half trance, half electronic. #ancestralmemory #Out of our bodies
* Work conceived for the occasion of Manifesta 13 Marseille
