Winner Carré Sur Seine 2020
Juliette Minchin
Born in 1993 in Clamart, France.
Website www.julietteminchin.com
Artist profile
Juliette Minchin
Born in 1993 in Clamart (92).
LAUREATE CARRÉ SUR SEINE 2020
Mutation, rite and disappearance could define Juliette Minchin's artistic approach. The artist explores the consistency of the work and its spatial, temporal and sensory hold on the viewer's environment (Chaosmos, 2018, La veillée au candélou, 2019). The use of natural materials such as wax and earth serves the almost organic mutation of the work and materializes the transcendent subject of Juliette Minchin 's work: the metamorphosis of bodies laid bare, the fragile cycle of life and its finitude (Peau de terre, 2018, La danse de la pluie, 2019).
His work is a synthesis of the random human evolution until the inevitable death and of the funeral rites accompanying it: carcass sculptures, wax shreds, but sculptures supporting mourning rituals (Omphalos, 2020).
Juliette Minchin has also contributed to numerous exhibitions as a set designer and curator ("L'épaisseur du temps", Galerie Graf Notaires, Paris, 2020). Her work has been exhibited at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2019), at the Joseph Gallery by the Guido Romero Pierini Gallery (2020) and will be shown at the "Hoop" Biennial in Holland in July and August 2021.
LA CASA
- exhibition-event of the winners of the Prize Carré sur Seine, from February 3 to 24, 2023 -
The lead trunk refers to the funerary urns she saw in the archaeological museum of Syracuse and to the sacred use of lead gutters from the sanctuary of Monte Pellegrino in the hills of Palermo. If it attests to the particular faith that permeates Sicilian heritage and culture, the "witness object" of a crown bristling with yellow wax from the manufacture of candles used in processions that she brought back from her trip in her suitcase, presents itself as the captivating revelation that the so-called "plunge" manufacturing process allows for the shaping of candles in its formal developments.
In architectures that are often sacred or marked by history, Juliette Minchin installs an armature in the form of decorum, a framework structure on which she places draperies of wax or which she dips in wax. She also impresses the sheet of paper as a free support to welcome the texture. Castings of graphite, pigment and burnt wood draw under the action of water and operate a statement of warmth, softness and translucency.
Some samples
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