Julien Louvier Legrand's (Ju) exhibition unfolds a visual territory where digital arts and photography engage in dialogue to question our contemporary realities, narratives, and sensibilities. It brings together sophisticated digital compositions and images captured with a deliberately minimalist smartphone, reworked through deliberate post-production techniques: chromatic overlays, kinetic blurs, digital cropping, and luminous traces that sculpt the image space. This dual practice, combining both technical and artisanal elements, gives rise to a visual dramaturgy where the precision of graphic design meets the spontaneity of poetic chance. The exhibition design invites visitors to explore the “states” of the image: from urban testimony to narrative tableau, from the photographic instant to the digital assemblage, to make tangible how a perception is constructed, filtered, contradicted, and then illuminated. The selected works showcase a visual language enriched by multiple influences, ranging from the rigour of graphic culture to surrealist and cinematic horizons, while maintaining an accessible emotional legibility. Visitors thus move between surfaces that are both crisp and vibrant, where each layer reveals a palimpsest of intentions and signs.
This commitment permeates both form and meaning: the choice of lightweight tools, careful hybridization of contemporary technologies and manual processes, a demand for authenticity in image creation, and, when possible, attention to materials and the production imprint. The exhibition is conceived as an experience: a journey through images that questions speed, identity, urban memory, and the ethics of looking in the digital age.
Here, the screen becomes matter, light becomes ink, and the viewer's attention becomes the final stage of a work in motion.
Julien Louvier Legrand develops a visual language that blends experimental photography with digital compositions, creating a space where narrative depth, social and environmental engagement intersect. From childhood, he was immersed in eclectic artistic influences ranging from René Magritte to Robert Doisneau, and Enki Bilal to Charlélie Couture and graffiti artist Mod 2. His creative process is underpinned by rigorous technical skills gained through a six-year course in graphic design and visual communication, as well as professional experience in agencies that refined his understanding of visual perception.
Julien brings an artisanal dimension to his work through collage and digital montage. His photography combines realistic image-making with experimental deconstruction: using a minimalist smartphone, he captures urban landscapes that often undergo radical post-production—including color layering, motion blur, digital cropping, and light painting.
I have chosen to stop using generative AI since last year. Furthermore, I wish to continue sharing my past work with you, albeit sparingly.
As a person with a physical disability, Julien advocates for an inclusive practice, transforming his condition into a creative lever to raise awareness about diversity issues. He is equally committed to sustainability, prioritizing eco-friendly printing materials and aiming for complete energy self-sufficiency for his creative tools. Open to collaborative projects and performances, he plans to dedicate a portion of his income to social, environmental, and animal welfare causes.
“To subtly listen to the image, to watch the sound without restraint, to touch the silence with the tips of our eyes, to drink in the horizon with delight when the journey carries us. And together, to seize the moment, the suspended moment...”