JULIEN CARREYN

Originally trained as a publisher, Julien Carreyn’s approach is based on image-making, the ways images appear before us, and the ways they are organised, classified and mounted. He has created an extensive corpus of images in which photographs, films and paintings coexist with no particular sense of hierarchy. They explore territories that are as varied as his own cross-disciplinary culture of the image, which embraces not only the history of art and film, but also electronic music and more ‘underground’ fields such as 1970s erotic graphic novels and mangas. In his recent work he evokes the memory of a French childhood. The main elements of his work are rural villages, abandoned municipal halls and youth hostels. They are haunted by naked silhouettes that act like tiny magnets. His recent series of modified Instax capture deserted urban landscapes as well as naked bodies, alone or in groups, seen from too far away to really stand out. Julien Carreyn plays with the blur and keeps his distance from the subjects as much as from the viewer. As he does with his own photos and with the reality that they capture but that he claims to evaporate.

His recent exhibitions include délire & co, Paris (FR), Le Quai/ Società delle Api, Monaco (MC), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Motto, Berlin (DE), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), Le Plateau / FRAC Ile de France (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Biennale de Nice (FR), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (FR) and Delpire & Co, Paris (FR).

He is represented in several public collections like Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), FRAC Ile de France, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Fonds d’art contemporain - Paris Collections, Paris (FR).