Julie Andrée T.
Driven by an insatiable vitality, Julie Andrée T. likes to travel, melt into worlds that she doesn't know, near or far, to draw her inspiration from them. "It is these impressions that nourish me when I go back to my studio", acknowledges the artist from Quebec, who lives five hours by car from Montreal, in a retreat in the middle of the forest. Her life is made up of contrasts. Like in the performances she practices, she radically transforms herself. She is a visual artist increasingly recognised on the international landscape, who goes from a performance festival in Buenos Aires to the Open Art Festival of Beijing, which she curated. Since her beginnings in the mid-1990s, she has worked with Martin Bélanger, Dominique Porte, Jacob Wren and PONI, as well as with the choreographer Benoît Lachambre. Both a visual artist and a performer, she works in a trio with the lighting technician Jean Jauvin and the sound artist Laurent Maslé, with the idea of upsetting the frontiers of genres, transforming her body in contact with often very simple stage elements. Since 1996, she has presented different works in the iconoclastic performance group Black Market International and has compelled recognition as a soloist with three shows: Provisional Issue, Not Waterproof and Red. Julie Andrée T. is coming to the Festival d'Avignon for the first time.
ADB, April 2010