France
Lives and works between México and France
Julie Escoffier lives and works between Mexico (Tapachula) and France (Lyon).
Escoffier holds a BFA and MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2013). Escoffier is the recipient of the Fondation Kenza grant in 2013, and did a postgraduate residency in Mexico City at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura (La Esmeralda). Escoffier has presented solo exhibitions at Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago (2016); Les Territoires, Montreal (2014), Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City (2014); Breve, Mexico City (2014); group exhibitions and presentations at Salon ACME, Mexico City (2017), Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2016), Museo Universtario del Chopo, Mexico City (2015), Le Magasin, Grenoble (2013), Les Subsistances, Lyon (2013), among others. Escoffier is also co-founder of the curatorial project Kairos.
Through sculpture and installation Julie Escoffier asks photographic question on voluminous shapes. The work set forth an unstable plane that is fragile, in constant evolution, and at times marked by a sense of incompleteness, it is struggling with issues that define it, such as its vulnerability, its durability or its possible disappearance, mirror the fragile existence of the human being. The potential failure is assumed and fully developed, the point does not end the sentence, the ephemeral is beauty.
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March – April 2017