Julien Creuzet at the Venice Biennale 2024

This exceptional book, an original creation conceived by the artist in close collaboration with the graphic design studio Alliage, presents over a hundred pages of installations made by Julien Creuzet that reflect the spirit of his work for the Pavillon.

Julien Creuzet creates a protean body of work that incorporates poetry, music, sculpture, assemblage, film and animation. By evoking trans-oceanic post-colonial exchanges and their multiple temporalities, the artist places his past, present and future heritage at the heart of his production. Shunning global narratives and cultural reductionism, Julien Creuzet's work often highlights anachronisms and social realities to construct irreducible objects. Like relics of the future brought ashore by an ocean tide, his works materialise as amplified testimonies to history, technology, geography and the self.

The book is introduced by texts by curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho, who introduce the reader to the world of Julien Creuzet. It brings together a rich corpus of extracts from texts by writers, poets and philosophers on fiction, science fiction, critical essays and a film script.

Bilingual in French and English, extracts of texts in Spanish and Portuguese are also translated into both languages.