Julien Creuzet’s Attila Cataract Exhibition at Brown University
Exhibition
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss..., exhibition view, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024, Giardini. Photo by Jacopo La Forgia.
The David Winton Bell Gallery Art Building at Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, RI 02912
February 20 - June 1, 2025
From February 20 to June 1, 2025, visit artist Julien Creuzet’s latest exhibition, blending immersive video and archipelagic sculptures in a stunning showcase, at Brown University’s Bell Gallery.
Entitled Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon, Creuzet’s new exhibition features a multi-sensorial experience through water at Brown’s contemporary art space.
Reimagining his French Pavillion featured at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, the artist centers his work on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures. Combining sonic effects, voice, and moving images, the exhibition draws on hip-hop, jazz, and other musical forms as well as bodily gestures across the African diaspora. This exhibition showcases Julien Creuzet’s artistic practice inspired by his diasporic experience, his relationship to his ancestral home, Martinique, and legacies of colonialism.
Originally curated by Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho, this exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Villa Albertine and Institut français, Steve Brown ‘05 and Kate Quinlin, Teiger Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean multifaceted artist and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, his work intertwines sculpture, installations and textual interventions. His work has appeared in numerous solo exhibitions, recently at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, the LUMA Westbau Zurich (2022-2023), the Camden Arts Centre (2021), and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2019). In 2024, he represented France at the 60th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
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