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Parking Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon, installation view, ICA at VCU, 2025. (artwork © Julien Creuzet; photograph by David Hale)
Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon, installation view, ICA at VCU, 2025. Left to right: Attila Cataracte Ta Source Aux Pieds Des Pitons Verts Finira Dans La Grande Mer Gouffre Bleu Nous Nous Noyâmes Dans Les Larmes Marées De La Lune - Nos Mots Cyclone - Diable rouge, 2025; Attila Cataracte Ta Source Aux Pieds Des Pitons Verts Finira Dans La Grande Mer Gouffre Bleu Nous Nous Noyâmes Dans Les Larmes Marées De La Lune - Nos Mots Cyclone - Bain bleu, 2025.(artwork © Julien Creuzet; photograph by David Hale)
Julien Creuzet, We could see ourselves, ventilate, in the mirror shield, we could feel ourseves alive, felt struck by the invigorating heat of the three thunderbolts, 2023, metal, acrylic paint, plastic, glue, fabric. (artwork © Julien Creuzet; courtesy Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC.)
Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Le Blanc Mesnil, France, lives Paris) has reimagined his French Pavilion from the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) for the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Creuzet’s exhibition at the ICA is part of a North American tour that began at The Bell Gallery at Brown University (February 20–June 1, 2025).
For this tour Creuzet has created an immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation that extends his focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures. A liquid ecosystem of voice, texture, sound, and moving image as divine presence, this multisensorial project is deeply sonic and draws from hip-hop, jazz, and other musical forms and bodily gestures across the African diaspora. Creuzet’s artistic practice has long referenced legacies of colonialism, and his challenge to the architecture and history of the French Pavilion extends to the campuses of Brown and VCU and their historic centrality within the Black Atlantic.
Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon was originated for the French Pavilion by curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho. Kate Kraczon, director of exhibitions and chief curator of the Brown Arts Institute / David Winton Bell Gallery, curated the exhibition for The Bell and helped organize the US tour. The show was organized for the ICA at VCU by Amber Esseiva, acting senior curator of the ICA.
Click here to listen to a conversation with the artist.
The project is made possible at Brown by generous support from Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Etant donnés, a program of Villa Albertine, and Institut français.
It is made possible at the ICA with generous support from:
Margaret Lewis
VCU Foundation
Ashley Kistler