Julie NAVARRO

Portrait © Solal-Villemain

Julie Navarro is a visual artist who works between Paris and Creuse.

Through her paintings, sculptures and performances, she develops work on the perception of the living, the materialitý of flows, and the beating heart of light. As art critic Mariane de Douhet (2022) sums up, ‘Julie Navarro’s art is spectral in a double sense, in that it scatters pigments, capturing, with a bird’s grace, their mobile radiance, open to disappearance; because it is on the lookout for ghostly presences, shadows and imprints. His works urge us to accentuate the power of the eye. The wave motif is everywhere: in the water, in the light, in the music and in the balls that the artist organises.

Her artistic practice is contextual in nature, explains Paul Ardenne (2021): ‘Each project developed by this artist in search of “unnoticed” relationships (philosopher Yves Michaud) is based on a given situation with which she finds herself confronted. Her approach is twofold: to open up a dialogue – with a geographical place, a community, a form of social life – and to poetise a relationship.
Her physical and mental travels during artistic residencies play a large part in this: at La Petite Escalère (Landes) and at the Suriane wine estate (Bouches du Rhône) in 2018, at the Craft-Limoges porcelain factory & at marbrerie Bonnichon (2020-2021), at the Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2021-22), around Hangzhou lake (China, 2023).

Julie Navarro exhibits in France and abroad. She was a finalist in the COAL and Talents Contemporains (Schneider Foundation) awards, and recently won the CNAP ‘œuvre à protocole activable’ programme with her SILVER BALL dance sculpture (2021-23).

Collaboration with LIUSA WANG, espace temps and galerie Fahmy-Malinovsky in Paris, galerie Mychkine, Blois