In search of a cosmic geology
A series inspired by Romain Gary's book Les trésors de la mer rouge, which was the subject of a solo exhibition in 2014 at Galerie du Buisson.
" In search of a new, cosmic and sensitive geology, Julie Navarro paints celestial objects that vibrate silently. (...). Julie Navarro's pictorial research is conducive to poetic transpositions. Romain Gary, born in a land of shifting borders, is an expert in splitting and instability. He exalts the ambivalence of the world and seeks dialogue with identities in the making.
" It's about people, their wanderings and their courage : " The treasures I've brought back from there are intangible and, when the pen doesn't take hold of them, they disappear forever. As a novelist, in love with these ephemeral diamonds, sometimes very pure, sometimes black, but always unique and moving in their mysterious brilliance, I set off in search of them, towards that inexhaustible mine of richness and poverty once known as the human soul (...). "
In 2019, for run space Julio, curator Laurent Quénéhen proposes to integrate the series into the Mach 1 exhibition with Julie Dalmon, Julie Navarro, Daniela Zuniga. Mach 1 is a project about moments when everything can accelerate, about the cosmos and black holes, about the heart racing, about the sound visible during the supersonic bang, when the speed of life exceeds that of sound. What we perceive just before it happens.
There are installations that border on black magic, incursions into the unreal, flights over unknown territory. The Mach 1 artists draw up plans, try out persuasive tactics, imagine tactics and create new worlds between reality, science and art. This exhibition crosses the speed of sound with that of hic et nunc monstration, a dazzling moment that beats at the heart of each work and still rekindles the stars.(...) Julie Navarro works by association of ideas to elaborate visual sensations. She photographed an unidentified flying object flying over the French countryside. Despite the morning mist, the artist managed to capture this ephemeral flight, creating a striking, ghostly mass.
Another equally poetic vision of his work is the " Black Diamond " painting, a living black diamond like a giant eye in space, as also glimpsed by Rihanna in her song "Diamonds": " So shine bright tonight, You and I - Eye to eye - So alive - We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. " Laurent Quénéhen.