Art of Juliette

“They could tell me who I was. They could not tell me what I saw.” What remains of a language of drawing formed before words, when other people’s words eventually begin to (…)

“The more my body holds me back, the more drawing calls to me.” How does drawing become a space for self-reflection when it is no longer possible to keep it on the (…)

“What seems stable can still be thrown off balance.” How does a drawing become more vulnerable as it takes shape, to the point where even the slightest stroke has the power (…)

‘My body remains silent whilst continuing to act.’ What becomes of our perception of the body when the focus on drawing momentarily suspends pain, weight and the passage of (…)

“When a gesture is constantly restrained, it forgets just how far it can go.” How does drawing enable a gesture that has long been constrained to regain its full range of (…)

‘The line also extends in depth.’ What becomes of the line when I build it up in layers, like a painted surface, until my gaze is drawn into its depth? Drawing is (…)

‘I decide on the incorrect element. I do not decide on what it produces.’ What becomes of the drawing when I deliberately introduce an element that my eye (…)

‘The sheet of paper does not reveal what happened to me. It holds what prompted my gesture.’ How does a drawing become a surface upon which appears that which manifests (…)

I do not fill the page with colour. I simply set out the conditions for their growth. My drawings sometimes resemble a vegetable garden. I sow colours, shapes and curves (…)

‘The paper bears the imprint of my hand. My hand bears the imprint of the drawing.’ How does the repeated act of drawing leave an imprint on both the paper and the hand (…)

“My breath ceases to accompany the drawing and enters into the drawing.” How does the suspension of my breath transform my relationship with the line and the material? (…)

‘The final stroke does not complete the drawing. It teaches me to let it go.’ How does the body return to the ordinary world once the hand has stopped drawing? Drawing (…)

“My hands hold the memory of movements older than my drawings.” How is tactile knowledge acquired by the body conveyed through drawing? The light slowly fades, and the (…)

‘My body stays here. The drawing, however, travels.’ How can a drawing create an experience of movement without the body changing location? I weave (…)

“A sheet of paper has a boundary. A drawing does not. ” How can a drawing continue from one sheet to the next without losing its continuity? I sometimes use woollen (…)

‘Attention begins before the drawing.’ How does the attention paid to the paper transform the body and the gesture before and during the drawing? Before the first stroke, (…)

“What happens quickly is not always what happens with great force.” How does drawing enable us to distinguish between the speed, force and duration specific to each (…)

“A sheet of paper has a boundary. A drawing does not. ” How can a drawing continue from one sheet to the next without losing its continuity? I sometimes use woollen (…)