Juliette Minchin

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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 ENSAD in Scenography and les Beaux Arts de Paris, she stages her works by working on matter, light, sense of smell and sound.  In her work, she mainly explores concepts related to disappearance and transformation (plasticity, metamorphosis, growth, dissolution, destruction, deliquescence, degeneration...). Marker of time passing, each of her works unfolds as an autonomous temporal sequence.  They are most often revealed in series, 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 (plaster, earth, wax or liquid) gives her sculptures an undeniably organic dimension, whose surface is close in its appearance of the skin.  The repetition of the same gesture and the random evolution of the material give them a processual aspect.

Environmental and immersive, they finally include the viewer by inviting him/her to an introspection, so that the experience they propose, seemingly materialistic,

is potentially esoteric.  The fictional spaces that Juliette Minchin creates can indeed be perceived 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.

Florian Gaité.

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Juliette Minchin has participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad such as the Biennale BIS (Saint-Paul de Vence), "Sans Relâche" (Monnaie de Paris), the HOOP Biennale (Oosterhout in the Netherlands), Melting Chamber (Selfridges in London), De Cinere Surgo (Palermo in Italy). Winner of "Mondes nouveaux", implemented by the Ministry of Culture, she presents the work La Croix, veillée aux épines  (The Cross, vigil with thorns) in the Abbey of Beaulieu-en-Rouergue in 2023 and her first solo exhibition at the Gallery Anne-Sarah Bénichou. IN 2024, she presents two solo-shows: "Passages" in ROOF-A in Rotterdam, "Rivelazioni" in Museo Sant'Orsola in Florence. Her work is shown in Art Brussels and Art Basel for the first time by Anne-Sarah Bénichou. She starts to work with König Gallery with a group show in Bergson in Munich and soon during the Berlin Art Week.