Frac-Artothèque spoke with artist Julien Audebert to discover his world and learn more about his artistic career and practice.
“5 MINUTES DE CONVERSATION” is a series of short video interviews with artists from the Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine collections.
Julien Audebert was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1977, and lives and works in Paris. His work is at the crossroads of text, image and film. His work revolves around two main axes: the miniature transcription of major texts, and the reconstitution of film images, retouched frame by frame. He also explores painting, particularly on copper. Rather than documenting or proving, his works summon up the memory of events – riots, crimes, landscapes – in a staging of remembrance. He describes his approach as a “dismantling” of the image, revealing what cinematic editing seeks to conceal. Between photography and painting, he questions the regimes of the image at a time when images tend to be reduced to data, by questioning the very places where they take shape.