Julien Creuzet
Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer

Pavilion of France, La Biennale Arte, Venice

Exhibition documentation, 2024

This series documented Julien Creuzet’s installation for the French Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia. The commission focused on the dense, suspended assemblages of colour, sound and text that occupied the pavilion, tracing how ropes, fabrics, sculptural fragments and projected images created an immersive environment. The photographs follow the work’s shifting scales and perspectives, echoing the exhibition’s attention to appearance and disappearance and to a poetic, sensorial way of inhabiting the many ecologies of the Caribbean.

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Exhibition text by La Biennale

The sight of the matoutou falaise is a gift when it appears in dense forests, on the bark of the Zamana trees or the rocks of the Martinique shores. It requires a deep connection to the environment; an eye that sweeps the contours and glides over the textures. It is about appearances and disappearances, what is given, protected, and also unseen... This way of seeing is undoubtedly what Julien Creuzet strives to offer through the experience of his work. It describes an immersion in a poetry of forms and sounds, volumes and lines in movement, colourful encounters forming new languages: an experience to be lived deeply. This tarantula, endemic to Martinique, could well be the symbol of a way of being with art that history has yet to write. It nourishes, and protects, in the teaching of a sensible and poetic understanding of the world it offers a softer gaze to approach the many ecologies of life. Creuzet’s forms stem from a locus of emancipation, which must be felt to truly see. It is a moment of learning and unlearning as a reconciliation with our senses, as well as a space to be untranslated and liberated.

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