Académie des sciences et lettres, 2026

Julien Barriol  

Created on a background of fragments of printed documents from, in particular, the Academy of Sciences and Letters, it deploys a black typographic script organized in lines, evoking a structured text whose reading nevertheless remains inaccessible.

The asemic writing invented by the artist Julien Barriol is composed of stamps incorporating mathematical formulas and scientific symbols. Repeated and assembled, these elements form a visual language that oscillates between rigorous codification and abstraction.

These typographic sequences suggest an organization of knowledge, immediately disrupted by their indecipherability. The medium, bearing an authority linked to the transmission of knowledge, contrasts with this flawed writing that hinders its reading.

The gaze attempts to understand and interpret, but is confronted with a fragmentation of meaning and a loss of bearings. Through this work, the artist questions the reliability and legibility of knowledge and communication systems, revealing their fragility in the face of the accumulation of signs. The work thus highlights a contemporary paradox: that of a world saturated with information, where access to meaning becomes increasingly uncertain.