"Julien Magre fantasizes about his life, transfigures everyday life, but he does not create his images as an authoritarian director: rather, he acts as a witness to a 'scene that is happening'. He plays with the very thin line between the banality of gestures and their possible revelation in dreamlike moments.
"Julien Magre fantasizes about his life, transfigures everyday life, but he does not create his images as an authoritarian director: rather, he acts as a witness to a 'scene that is happening'. He plays with the very thin line between the banality of gestures and their possible revelation in dreamlike moments.
This is undoubtedly what it means to live one's life literary, to live all things like the possible fragments of a story that would be written before our eyes, at the edge of a frozen swimming pool, in a bathtub where the body floats, or facing a snowy landscape. The trace of faces remains, ephemeral reflections behind a window, like serious specters; a motionless and silent dance in the heart of a thick forest; or a game with death and ghosts. These pantomimes suggest that life is never reducible, that it is always much more: both promise and mystery.
Léa Bismuth
Julien Magre lives and works in Paris. Since 2017, his work has been represented by the Le Réverbère gallery in Lyon.
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