Explore the universe of the artist who represented France at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Fresh from representing France at the 60th Venice Biennale, French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary art today. His work, presented this month, as a solo booth at Art Brussels with Mendes Wood DM, shifts between visual art and poetry, exploring themes of diasporic experiences and post-colonial complexities.
At TheMerode, Creuzet will engage in conversation with Sofia Dati, curator at Brussels' contemporary art center WIELS. Together, they’ll delve into the diverse scope of his practice, and examine the poetic freedom Creuzet creates through an artistic vocabulary embedded in landscapes, sensations and gestures of journeying between worlds.
A unique chance to get up close with one of the art world’s rising voices.
©photo: Djiby Kebe for Chanel Culture Fund
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French-born artist Julien Creuzet, based in Montreuil, intertwines practices as a visual artist and poet through amalgams of sculpture, film, installation, and textual intervention. Describing Martinique, where the artist spent formative childhood years, as “the heart of my imagination,” Creuzet often addresses diasporic cultural experiences and post-colonial exchanges. Drawing from influences such as the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, Creuzet’s intellectual engagement bridges celebratory, emancipatory, and critical expressions at the intersection of Caribbean history and European modernity. Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and his work has been presented in major institutions such as Paris’ Palais de Tokyo.
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Sofia Dati is a curator at WIELS. Previously, she was a visual and audiovisual arts programmer at Beursschouwburg where she curated exhibitions and film programs. From 2019 to 2021, as part of the curatorial team in WIELS, she worked on exhibitions, discursive programs and publications. She is also involved in collective curatorial processes with Black Archive and Kinostories. Sofia studied Literature at La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Cultural Studies at KU Leuven and Curatorial Studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. Her practice is rooted in writing and translation. She worked with the Christopher Okigbo Foundation on Christiane Fioupou’s French translation of the collection of poems Labyrinths (Gallimard, 2021) and is co-editor of Alexis Blake’s monograph Allegory of the Painted Woman (Archive Books, forthcoming). She has published articles in magazines such as Po&sie, Arshake and Conceptual Fine Arts.
