Julia Le Dref

My drawings and sculptures are rooted in our familiar spaces, giving rise to a habitat that has become inhospitable.
As if our interiors had been struck by storms, by disruptions.
Because once the beauty of memories is erased, what remains? A simple shelf frame.
Far from the fantasy of memory. And what remains is not appealing.
If even memory no longer exists, then what is left? Something uninhabitable. Bare. Ugly.
I seek to make this shift resonate: from the familiar to the strange, from the living to the remnant.
Between intimate memory and collective disappearance, I try to bring forth a visual language that questions our relationship to places, to time, and to what we leave behind.

“I think I know what I have to do with all these sculptures that seem to refer to a domestic space: the desire to place a book on this shelf, lie down on the bed, sit at the table, draw the curtains…
but the gestures are lost in disillusion
this space no longer exists,
or never existed.”