visual artist / photographe plasticienne
born in 1986 in Grenoble, FR
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).
She recognizes herself in Soulage's words:
"It's what I do that reveals what I'm looking for."
Exhibitions
2022 Villa Pérochon - Restitution travail de résidence, Niort, FR
2022 Shubbiha Lahum - Exposition collective, Rencontres Internationales de la Jeune Photographie, Niort, 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
Background
2017 -2020 Marbling Artist at Tomàs Avinent Atelier Paris, FR
2017 Photography Workshop with Paolo Verzone at VU Agency, Paris, FR
2012 & 2013 Photography Workshops with Claudine Doury in Arles FR & Prague, CZ
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
Publications (selected)
Plateform Magazine - 2017, Mars, plateformag.com
Positive Magazine - 2017, Février, positive-magazine.com
TjejLand Publication - tjejland.com - Take Over Instagram, 2016, Février, @tjejland
Festival MAP Toulouse - Sélection Instagram, 2016, Janvier, @maptoulouse
Fisheye Magazine - Sélection Instagram #12, 2015, Novembre, fisheyemagazine.fr
Open Doors Gallery - opendoorsgallery.com, Take Over Instagram, 2015, Avril, @odtakeovers
Of the Afternoon - “The Instagram list, Who you should be following in 2014”, 2014, Septembre, oftheafternoon.com
© portrait par Tiphaine Caro