We originally planned an exhibition with Chandran Gallery for the 30th of April in New York. Given the current circumstances, we decided to re‑think our plan.
One of the benefits of a long-standing gallery/artist relationship is that you can bounce ideas off of one another. After deciding to delay the physical show until further notice, Amanda Krampf (the director of Chandran Gallery) and I put our heads together. Since everyone had to stay at home, why not bring the show into people’s homes with Chandran’s first-ever virtual show.
With that, “Home Slice” was born.
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Julia.Studio and my brother Nicolas Jullien (programmer, amongst many other talents) to create this online exhibition — a companion show to the forthcoming New York show, “Slices.”
I've always kept diaries and sketchbooks to fill with ideas, notes and observations. Over the years I've done it so much that when I look back, I have a drawn rendering of my close ones changing, evolving, ageing. Time passing graphically
With painting, I enjoy trying to tell more, to visually translate moments. The time told is longer, the action less immediate, the point less important.
A lot of the things I want to paint happen outside, for some reason. Maybe it's because people become more of a detail than a focus. A visual punctuation.
I'm less confident when it comes to indoor paintings. I'm really attracted to the intimacy of it, something that's always drawn me to the work of Vuillard. But that context lends itself better to drawing for me, which is why the paintings done indoors seem like an odd in-between of my two practices.
I've also been thinking more and more about my (our) place in the grand scheme of things and especially in relation to nature. And I like the idea of us being tenants in the world, more than landlords. We're allowed to tread here, but should remember it's not ours to begin with. That comes back to us being punctuations in a bigger story. The contrast is something that I really enjoy visually and I hope that it translates narratively, to.
