Magnolia forever, 2024

Juliette June   New & remarkable Artists

Champlats wood

While Juliette June's primary focus is painting and drawing as materials to be explored, she uses them to give form to a sensitive observation of reality on the one hand, and to reveal her state of consciousness on the other. In this respect, her "Fusion" series explores how to merge this dual approach—exogenous (landscape) and endogenous (consciousness). What she seeks to unveil is her experience of the continuity of matter, of which we are a part. It is no longer a question of perceiving life as juxtaposed elements, but of apprehending it as a whole in perpetual motion and mutation. She compares this whole to a substance akin to sand in water. It is made of masses, of varying densities, dissolving, solidifying, moving, yet existing within a homogeneity that neither distinguishes nor hierarchizes one grain from another.

This exploration involves recreating moments experienced in the landscape (sea, mountains, forest), according to the seasons. It draws on memory, imagination, and considers one's state of being in the moment to express the impact of a ray of sunlight on trousers or to depict the arrangement of branches on the ground. A tangible and figurative approach.
This is compounded by her experience of expanded consciousness, acquired through deep meditation, which revealed her connection to the whole. This experience manifests as visions of a raw or primal, vibrant, shimmering pink substance to which all living things belong. A psychic and abstract approach.

Visual artist Juliette June seeks to make visible this nectar or flow of life that resonates within us and inhabits both the experience of a trivial moment (drinking coffee, walking in the forest) and the pursuit of a particular state of consciousness. The choice of these titles underscores this vibration and this osmosis that she experiences and shares in her paintings: "You who shiver when I tread upon you," "Spring's Burst."