visual artist / photographe plasticienne
born in 1986 in France
lives and works between Paris and Albi, FR
contact@juliagenet.com
member of ADAGP
Biography
As a teenager, Julia Genet explores photography, paints on her polaroids, plays with multiple exposures and silver treatments with her old Soviet cameras.
Passionate about cinema, she obtained a Master's degree in film photography in 2010.
Many workshops, notably with Claudine Doury and Paolo Verzone, confirm her taste for portraiture.
In order to enrich her plastic vocabulary and satisfy her passion for color, Julia learns marbling and suminagashi, challenging techniques of painting on water, and follows since 2019 the courses of Nihon-ga, the traditional Japanese painting, of artist Yiching Chen.
These skills enrich her pictorial language and are mixed with photography, which she conceives as material. Her work has been exhibited in England, Germany, Czech Republic and France.
In addition to her personal practice, she also works on commissions. So far, her work has been published in Télérama, Galimard and La Croix (french magazines).
Exhibitions
2023 Le Cercle de l'Art - portfolio presentation, Paris FR
2022 Approches du bonheur - Exposition collective, Paris FR
2022 Villa Pérochon - Restitution travail de résidence, Niort FR
2022 Shubbiha Lahum - Exposition collective, Rencontres Internationales de la Jeune Photographie, Niort FR
2021 Le Cercle de l'Art - portfolio presentation, Paris FR
2016 If You Leave Showcase - Exposition collective, Berlin DE
2015 If You Leave Showcase - Exposition collective, Londres UK
2013 Strom - Exposition collective, Napa Gallery, Prague CZ
2012 Tiefenrausch - Exposition collective, Arles FR
Residencies / Projects
2023 Artistic Residency with Le Cercle de l'Art, Cassis, FR
2022 & 2023 Le Cercle de l'Art, community coordinator, FR
2022 Artistic Residency at Villa Pérochon, Niort, FR
2017 -2020 Marbling Artist at Tomàs Avinent Atelier Paris, FR
Publications (selected)
Fisheye Magazine - 2022, fisheyemagzine.fr
La Croix - 2022, article
Réponses Photo - 2022, reponsesphoto.fr
Femmes d'Art - 2022, article
Rosie Unpublished, zines - 2020, Parties Prises éditions
Plateform Magazine - 2017, plateformag.com
Positive Magazine - 2017, positive-magazine.com
Festival MAP Toulouse - Sélection Instagram - 2016, @maptoulouse
Fisheye Magazine - Sélection Instagram #12, 2015, fisheyemagazine.fr
Of the Afternoon - “The Instagram list, Who you should be following in 2014”, 2014, oftheafternoon.com
Education
2010 Bachelor's degree in fiction and documentary film UQAM, Montreal, CA
2010 Master's Degree Photography Direction in Cinema at S.A.T.I.S, Aubagne, FR
She recognizes herself in Soulage's words:
"It's what I do that reveals what I'm looking for."