Julie Fruchon

Julie Fruchon was born in 1983 in Tours (FR), she lives and works in Paris (FR)

“My practice is primarily that of drawing, through which I try to develop solutions of my own—both in terms of form and in the broader conception I have of drawing itself. Drawing allows me a freer interpretation of reality, of the world. It is a way of processing the real. I move forward in and through drawing, and my work becomes a set of proposals, of particular viewpoints. By gathering these viewpoints, I form a kind of repertoire of ideas.

Anecdote holds a special place in my work. I begin with a story or a detail, which I extract from its original context in order to expand it. It becomes a point of reaction that gives rise to a transformation, an intervention on my part. The elements I hear about or undertake to create overlap with their own reality to offer a new reading.

In a given space, the aim is to form a thinking image. I frame my gaze on a specific element that serves as a starting point, a pretext for creation—to build an image in response.

I use the principles of drawing, both materially—paper and pencil—and conceptually—to find a pictorial code, to represent through a sign. Within these constraints, I seek drawings that might contain both the representable, the visible (the outline), and its content, meaning that which I can only perceive. To represent the immaterial.

What boundaries can be pushed with the tools of drawing?
More than a medium, drawing is a way of putting ideas and reflections into perspective—on space and time. In what takes place within an image, in what it transcends or evokes, in a line dictated by a gesture, and in what that line tries to contain or suggest.”