JULIE SUSSET / French, born in 1984
WORKS
TROPICAL ESCAPE - BY ÉLODIE BERNARD, CURATOR
Using a recognizable palette of bright colors, Julie Susset superimposes and creates a dialogue between memories of nature that she invents. Public parks, tropical greenhouses, and trees lining city streets are all small microcosms built and ordered by humans, which the young painter seizes upon to create her pictorial material.
Painting became a necessity for Julie Susset from childhood onwards. Carried away by travel in her younger years, she returned to painting full-time when she settled back in Paris, finding new inspiration in representations of plants. She recognized the anxiety that big cities can cause for artistic creation. A need to escape, therefore, a need to return to simple things. In her “all-over” paintings, where the paint splashes, flows, and stretches, it is a question of material, color, and above all, gesture. With the great freedom offered by the medium of painting, Julie Susset questions our fantasies, the way our imagination constructs them and sometimes saturates them with idealization.
"I PAINT AS I LIVE"
"I paint as I live! Instinctively, spontaneously, and rather freely! There are no plans, no rules, even if I do have a few rituals. My memories and emotions serve as my starting point, then I paint urgently, in one breath... I always listen to music when I work in my studio because I like the idea of transcribing the energy of the moment (and its rhythm) into a fluid movement, like a dance. In addition to brushes, I use my fingers, palms, and forearms to achieve the effects I want. My whole body is at work.
My painting is an endless series! But in the broad sense of the theme, not in the sense of scenery or landscape. Plants are only the final visible layer on my canvases. Hidden behind the attractive colors and dreamlike landscapes is, above all, human nature, very much alive and with its many emotions... I have a childlike wonder at the beauty of nature... which commands respect and humility."
Detail from Rendez-vous nocturne
Detail from Balata 3
CAREER
Self-taught painter, born in 1984. Originally from Les Sables d'Olonne. Lives and works in Paris.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Selva, Galerie Tournemine, La Baule
2025
Alaloba (A la lova), Triptyque Galerie, Les Sables-d'Ollonne
2024
Welcome to the jungle, Galerie Tournemine, La Baule
2023
Exhibition at 64, CMP (Centre Médico Psychologique), Bagneux
2022
Souffle, Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
2021
De tout, il resta trois choses..., Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
Bird, La peau de l'ours Gallery, Brussels
Escape, Hors les murs Galerie des jours de lune, L.A.C du collège de Uckange, Metz
2020
Aux souffles, Aux Terres, Aux Mers, Aux Lumières, Galerie Exit Art Contemporain, Boulogne-Billancourt
2017
Rainforest, Le Carré, ECLA-MJC, Saint-Cloud
2015
Spring Memories, Zurich, Switzerland 2X2, Le Petit Joseph Dijon, Paris
2014
Summer Graffiti, Gambetta Square, Les Sables d'Olonne Spring Rythm, Espace Brémontier, Paris
2013
Sensations Colorées, La Roche-Sur-Yon
(et des) Jardins, Eh Oui, Paris
Au Jardin, Outdoor installation, Le Château d'Olonne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Landscapes, L' E s p a c e, Rognac
2021
Holidays Souvenir, curated by La peau de l'ours, supported by AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Bruxelles
Estivales, Festival d'art contemporain du Grand Paris, Hôtel de Ville de Sceaux, Sceaux
Doublement verte, Galerie des jours de lune, Metz
2020
Coup de Soleil, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Carte blanche aux galeries de Boulogne, Espace Landowski, Boulogne-Billancourt
2019
All are guests, Galerie Exit Art Contemporain, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Plástico Arqueológico, Círculo Cubano de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Matière et sentiments, Galerie Christiane Peugeot, Paris
Pour Parler d'Elle, Galerie Exit Art Contemporain, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Art & Beyond, curated by La peau de l'ours, supported by AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Brussels
Sex on the Beach, stirred not shaken, Galerie La peau de l'ours (Rivoli Brussels), Brussels
Progression(s), Galerie Christiane Peugeot, Paris
2018
Premiers Frissons d'Hiver, Galerie ALG. contemporary art, Paris
YIA ART FAIR, with Galerie ALG. contemporary art, Carreau du Temple, Paris
Juxtaposition, curated by Bruno Plantin-Carrenard, Galerie La peau de l'ours (Rivoli Brussels), Brussels
Heureux Hasards, Galerie ALG. contemporary art, Paris
Mix and Match, curated by Elodie Bernard, Galerie La peau de l'ours (Rivoli Brussels), Bruxelles
2017
Group exhibition, Galerie Samira Cambie, Montpellier
2016
Rentrez, Artothèque ECLA, Saint-Cloud
After Puls'art, Centre d'Art Ile de Moulinsart, Fillé-sur-Sarthe
2015
En Conversion, La Taverne Gutenberg, Lyon Ateliers Paris Est, La Petite Criée, Pantin
2014
Guoyi Art Museum, National Gallery, Beijing Museum of Fine Arts, China
Salon Réalités Nouvelles, Parc Floral du Château de Vincennes, Paris
Overline III: Reflections, Prieuré St Nicolas, Les Sables d'Olonne
2013
Biennale de Nantes, Parc des expositions, Nantes
Salon d'Automne, Avenue des Champs Elysées, Paris
RESIDENCE
2017
ECLA MJC Le Carré, Saint-Cloud
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