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Bio /
1978, born in France, lived in Paris, Krakow, Berlin, Geneva.
Studied new media at Paris8 University then in the HEAD Geneva.
Follower student in Beate Gütschow‘s class at the HGB Leipzig.
Currently lives and works in Berlin
Training /
HAUTE ECOLE D’ART ET DE DESIGN, GENEVE (HEAD) [ SWITZERLAND ]Pôle arts/media, grade Bachelor « Magna cum laude».
HOCHSCHULE FÜR GRAPHIK UND BUCHKUNST, LEIPZIG (HgB) [ GERMANY ]Academic exchange program, Prof. Beate Gütschow.
UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 [ FRANCE ]Photography and multimedia in contemporary art
Exhibitions /
2011 > Réflexion & Dé-monstration (photo-installation), HEAD Genève / CH
2010 > Vues & artefact (photo-installation), HEAD Genève / CH
2006 > AREAS (photography), Polish Institute of Nuremberg / DE
> Available Art 2 (collective exhibition), Galerie Camelot, Krakow / PL
> Teraz My (photography), Centre culturel Lokator, Krakow / PL
2005 > Judgment Day (installation) - Available Art 1, Galerie Camelot, Krakow / PL
Pacing in Europe for ten years, Julien Menand has found home in photography and welcomes the viewer into this ambiguous world. Asked to look at what escapes his eye, to enter an image that is observed, he is led to question constantly what he sees, and to look what he could find beyond. These images en trompe-l’oeil involve the space of and in photography and question the essence of the exhibition: what is given to see and whom is this addressing ? Looking for a Neo-Pictorialism aesthetic emancipated from painting, Julien offers purely photographic «views», captured on large and medium film format.
Contact : julien.menand@gmail.com
Vue 6530 / after Mondrian (2009), D-print on aluminium mounted, 90x100cm
Pet Mondrian looks alike composition
Georgia in my mind / Photographic Essay
The poetic of my work lies in the staging and pictorial construction. The theme is subjectivized, and is described and revised according to my feelings and my culture. There is no explicit «referent» to these images as such. They do not refer to a condition or a time that needs to exist historically or so-cially. They reveal something peculiar to me. That’s why I see some of my work more as an essay in photography, going empty minded and trying to photograph through a felt-sense as a way to keep distant from the «all media principles».
In these essay, out of a date and a place, you will find nothing more as a glance.... / Tbilissi, 2011