Landscaping Ed. 2 of 5

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220cm (W) x 49cm (H) x 0.1cm (D)

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Artwork Description

Landscaping is a triptych of multiple-exposure photographs of the Australian landscape produced during a Bundanon Trust artist residency in 2019. Each photograph is a blend of five exposures merged in camera by an algorithm that removes the darker parts of the source images. While it resembles a landscape, the resulting picture is fictional and unlike the actual place I photographed. Bundanon is a layered site β€” Aboriginal Country, European farmland, cottage retreat, artist residence β€” that has undergone several transformations over the years. It is a controlled and landscaped environment that reminded me of the experience of being a photographer β€” selecting and composing things to make them fit into a pretty picture. In an attempt to reset my expectations about what I saw I chose to let the camera be guided by chance, pressing the shutter button at random and hoping to generate a less constructed, and perhaps more honest, image of the land. The work consists of three prints, each measuring 72cm x 49cm (overall size 220cm long and 49cm high unframed), and would be best displayed on a long strip of wall in three separate frames.

Artist Bio

I am a visual artist working primarily with photography and other lens-based media, though I love to blur boundaries and sometimes incorporate aspects of performance and installation into my work. I grew up in France and studied architecture before moving to Australia in 2006 to travel and develop my photography. In 2018 I obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania and I currently live and work in Hobart. In my practice I explore ways to raise questions about the different types of environments in which we live. I find mundane things inspiring and I think they can reveal a lot about us. The work I make is an attempt to represent ordinary experience differently, question what is around me and promote another way of seeing.

Commissions

Julien's studio is in Hobart, Tasmania