Juliette Minchin | On Vogue | Summer Salon

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Born in 1992, Juliette Minchin lives in Paris where she develops her practice of sculpture, installation, video and drawing. Graduated of L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in set design and les Beaux-Arts de Paris, she has an immerse approach staging her works by working on matter, light, sense of smell and sound.

In her work, she mainly explores concepts related to transformation and cyclic time. Most often revealed in series, her artworks are presented under different states, playing then on an essential ambiguity: birth of the matter or death of the form, here, the beginning and the end are confused.

The use of natural materials (clay, wax or liquid) gives her sculptures an undeniably lively dimension, whose surface is close in its appearance of the skin. Wax is central in her work: reactivated ad infinitum, the same wax is used and remelted for successive pieces as a soul leaves one body for another.

Her work is destroyed and thus reborn as Tibetan mandala. The repetition of the same gesture and the random evolution of the material give them a processual aspect. Juliette Minchin finally includes the viewer by inviting him to an introspection, so that the experience she proposes, seemingly materialistic, is potentially esoteric. The fictional spaces that she creates can indeed be perceive as ritual places. The range of hieratic and sacred forms, which it borrows from archetypes common to different cultures, awakens animist, mystical or spiritual reflexes in the spectator, introducing a transcendence form into the heart of matter.