Juliette Sallin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Geneva, Switzerland. She creates paintings and installations that explore the presence of things: a landscape, a plant, a rock, the atmosphere or her own body. Her work considers how these presences become perceptible, meet one another and unsettle the boundaries between the human, vegetal and mineral.
Working primarily with silk organza, she prepares inks from natural materials and presses plants directly onto the fabric. She also uses plant-based resin to create imprints in relief. Each form arises through contact between her gesture, the plant’s surface and the response of the materials.
Through colour, transparency and volume, her works make room for what resists precise representation. A trace may suggest a leaf, a skin or a fragment of landscape at once. Sallin is drawn to this ambiguity: the way an imprint can hold a living presence without fixing the thing from which it came.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland, Juliette Sallin studied textile design at the University of Florence, new media at the HEAD Geneva and Kingston University (GB). Two-time recipient of the Swiss Ikea Foundation (2009 and 2013), Juliette has exhibited in Switzerland and Great Britain. Her work is held in private collections in Europe and north America.
Represented by galerie Amélie du Chalard, Paris & New York, click here to see available works