Julien Prévieux
Performance Capture - Film - 20min - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
Film
This video essay focuses on the nature and issues of the new technologies for recording body movements. From an inventory of the different ways of succumbing to bullets in video games to intensive surveillance through walls using Wi-Fi signals, via the use of beautifying filters and the analysis of individual steps as profiling methods, Julien Prévieux guides the viewer through territories oscillating between burlesque comedy and muted anguish. The artist has enlisted the services
of a veteran of motion-capture acting to embody his ideas and decipher the technological and political layers. This kinetic dissection allows us to grasp the effects of these technologies on our perception of
the body and human gestures, while hinting at a future in which our own movements could turn against us. Unless, that is, the film offers us some alternative avenues, inviting us to reinvent the way we move.
Julien Prévieux
Born in Grenoble in 1974. Lives and works in Paris. Has taught at the Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019.
Julien Prévieux is a French artist whose multidisciplinary work is regularly exhibited in art centres, galleries and museums in France and abroad. The economy, politics, cutting-edge technologies and the cultural industry are all "worlds" in which his artistic practice intervenes. Like *The Non-motivation **letters *he sent to companies over a period of seven years in response to advertisements in the press, detailing his reasons for not applying. A keen observer of individual and collective behaviour, the artist casts a critical yet humorous eye on society.
He has recently produced a number of performances, including Of Balls, Books and Hats, presented at the Actoral festival in Marseille, Usine C in Montreal, the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris and T2G in Gennevilliers.
He has presented his work in a number of solo exhibitions, notably at the Art Sonje art centre in Seoul, the MAC in Marseille, the RISD Museum of Art in Providence, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Blackwood Gallery in Toronto, and his many group exhibitions include the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the 2015 Lyon Biennale and the 10th Istanbul Biennale. He was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2014.
