Juliette Minchin (b. 1992) lives in Paris, where she developed her sculpture, installation, video, and drawing practice. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in scenography and Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she stages her work using materials, light, smell, and sound.
The use of natural materials (plaster, earth, wax or liquid) gives her sculptures an undeniably organic dimension, whose surface is close in its appearance of the skin. The repetition of the same gesture and the random evolution of the material gives them a processual aspect.
Specifically for ROOF-A, Minchin is creating a new, site-specific installation for the entire ground floor of the gallery, titled REBURN. In this new series of works, Juliette Minchin explores the traces of combustion and transformation. Her oeuvre manifests as a visual meditation in which matter and memory become intertwined. The works unfold an aesthetic that is simultaneously fragile and unforgiving.