Dirty Lines #1

Technique: graphite, Indian ink and acrylic on paper.
Exhibition available in several formats.

A multidisciplinary artist, Julie Savoye is first and foremost a painter: she has a love of seemingly ordered disorder, of destabilised continuity, of undulating straight lines, of flat relief.
She overturns the laws of geometry by creating new, often asymmetrical forms, seeking the most harmonious disruptions, the error that never is one. Once the framework is found, she declines all its possibilities, recreating it endlessly.
For 10 years, Julie Savoye has based her work on the same protocol: each autumn, a self-publishing project; each winter, a drawing project; each spring, a volume and painting project; and each summer, a video project that allowed her to free herself from the year's works, while offering them the possibility of being seen differently.

To be able to abandon this protocol framework, which had become too burdensome, Julie Savoye developed the Dirty Lines project: a 24 x 30 cm painting per day in the studio, for as long as the desire was felt, produced on paper using graphite, Indian ink and acrylic.
Claiming a kinship with Raymond Queneau and his Exercises in Style (one also thinks of his famous One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems), Julie Savoye endlessly interweaves angles, colors, and shapes. Each variation is the gestural extension of a deliberate choice by the artist—superposition, shifting, stretching, etc.—an artistic mechanism that Julie Savoye contrasts with the equally infinite possibilities of digital technology and the algorithms she refuses to use. For Julie Savoye, this artistic mechanism is the absolute condition for the understanding of her constructions by the spectators-scrutinizers of her works.

The Dirty Lines series ended after 144 24 x 30 cm paintings and seven 60 x 80 cm paintings. Julie Savoye now has new projects.