Julien Creuzet: La pluie a rendu cela possible depuis le morne en colère, la montagne est restée silencieuse. Des impacts de la guerre, des gouttes missile. Après tout cela, peut-être que le volcan protestera à son tour. – Toute la distance de la mer (…)

La pluie a rendu cela possible depuis le morne en colère, la montagne est restée silencieuse. Des impacts de la guerre, des gouttes missile. Après tout cela, peut-être que le volcan protestera à son tour. – Toute la distance de la mer (…)

The rain made it possible, in the wake of the angry Morne, the mountain has been silent. Impacts of war, of missile drops. After all this, perhaps the volcano will protest in turn. - All the sea’s distance (...)

From January 24 to April 14, 2018
Opening on Tuesday, January 23 – 6 to 9 p.m.

Curated by Mélanie Bouteloup

Fondation d’entreprise Ricard and Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research are happy to present jointly a double solo exhibition by Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Le Blanc-Mesnil, France).

In this project, Julien Creuzet comments on and finds shapes for stories of displacement, exile, acculturation and reappropriation of identities. His works combine everyday elements and wooden forms with poetry, songs and music. They inhabit places within both institutions and dialogue between them. In one, the artist constructs radiant inhabited forests, offering a counter-balance to a centralizing modernism which the will of universalism has rendered blind to the diversity of lived experiences. In the other, suspended wooden forms seem to hold their breath.

Creuzet places the link between identities and economies at the heart of his installations. He looks at the transatlantic trajectories of the Caribbean diaspora or of the migrants of the global South, subjects of a racial division of labor that remains hidden and is yet reflected in all spheres of our life, whether private or public.

By composing multilinear landscapes made up of heterogeneous elements, enlacing hurricanes of the Caribbean, the covered markets of Montreuil and Portuguese man o’ war, Creuzet echoes the concerns of the philosopher Achille Mbembe who in his essay Politiques de l’inimitié (La Découverte, 2016) asks: "How can we, in our divided world, contribute to the emergence of a thought that is capable of contributing to the consolidation of a democratic politics on a global level, a thought of complementarities rather than difference?" By thinking about the emotions and particular experiences of the world, he creates a space that is – both socially and formally – inhabited and where margins and centers are challenged.

At the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, the exhibition will end on Monday, February 19th with a day of performances. With the closing of the show, all the works will be gathered at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research to form a last, all-encompassing ensemble.
The exhibitions will be accompanied by a free publication shared by both institutions.

Exhibition at Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Toute la distance de la mer, pour que les filaments à huile des mancenilliers nous arrêtent les battements de cœur. - La pluie a rendu cela possible (…), from January 23 to February 19, 2018.
Opening on Monday, January 22, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.