In search of a sensitive cosmic geology, and inspired by Romain Gary's book Les trésors de la mer rouge, Julie Navarro paints celestial objects that vibrate silently. Her pictorial research is conducive to poetic transpositions.
The series of paintings and the photogram of the eponymous video are presented at Mach 1 in 2019, at Galerie Julio, by art critic Laurent Quénéhen :"Mach 1 is a project about the moments when everything can accelerate, about the cosmos and black holes, about the heart that panics, about the sound visible during the supersonic bang, when the speed of life exceeds that of sound. There are installations that border on black magic, incursions into the unreal, flights into uncharted 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 the speed of monstration hic et nunc, 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, shooting a striking, ghostly mass. In reality, a rare physical phenomenon coupled with a train journey that she filmed and associated with this apparition. Another equally poetic vision of her work is the painting “Black Diamond”, 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, 2019 excerpt from Mach 1 exhibition text with Julie Dalmon, Julie Navarro, Daniela Zuniga.”