Juliette Feck

First, one must picture Juliette Feck as a forager roaming the least civilised part of town to glean the dregs of the contemporary world (battered car doors, leftovers of burnt car bodies, mummified animals, canisters…). Then, one must imagine the artist as a 2.0 alchemist capable of turning these remainders of arson into constellations projected in a 3D world that can be explored with a 360° virtual reality headset. The artist takes in her surroundings with a keen interest in what makes today’s world so violent and, with a sleight of the hand, defuses and transforms it. Fire is a recurring motif in her work, in that it attacks and alters materials, and is also the focus of several of her ceramic pieces. It is the central element of an artistic praxis, which, if one were to look closer, could perhaps be interpreted as black magic.