Julie Legrand. Retour aux sources

Retour aux sources. Julie Legrand, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2024

1st edition
Edition of 400 numbered copies
Hardcover, 23 x 28 cm, 96 pages
French-English editionISBN : 978-2-491901-86-8

The catalog Retour aux sources. Julie Legrand documents the artist's solo exhibition at the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais from June 29 to October 1, 2024. The catalog includes a foreword by Hélène Lallier, an interview with Julie Legrand, and texts by Manuel Fadat, Harald Fernagu and Isabelle de Maison Rouge.

Julie Legrand was born in 1973. Her studio is located in Vendeuil, Picardy. After studying Literature and Philosophy, she obtained the DNSEP from the École des Beaux-arts de Cergy-Pontoise in 1999 and completed a Master's degree in Technologies and Contemporary Creation at ENSCI Saint Sabin in 2014. She has been teaching sculpture and installations, as well as the glass speciality, at the École d'art du Beauvaisis since 2018. She has exhibited in numerous institutions including the Palais de Tokyo, La Maison Rouge and Musée Bourdelle in Paris, the Fondation Bullukian in Lyon, the CRAC in Sète, the Musée Gassendi in Dignes, the Centre d'art contemporain in Belfort, the Musée des Augustins and the Fondation Écureuil in Toulouse, the Monastère Royal de Brou, the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Colombes and the Centre d'art Eleven Steens in Brussels, among many others.

Manuel Fadat is an art historian, art critic and freelance curator who also works with the Oudeis team, which he joined in 2012, and has taken a keen interest in the social and political dimensions of contemporary art.

Born in Cherbourg in 1970, Harald Fernagu lives and works in Poitiers. After studying at the Dijon Fine Arts School, the 17 years he spent in the Emmaüs community in Dijon made his artistic approach both singular and militant. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at Galerie Polaris in Paris, ELEVEN STEENS in Brussels, Galerie Louise Michel in Poitiers, Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre in Paris among many others.

Hélène Lallier is a contemporary art historian with a specialization in public art. With a DEA and a DESS in Cultural Project Methodology; she directed the Centre d'art contemporain de Lacoux from 2005 to 2010, then the Centre d'art contemporain du Château des Adhémar in Montélimar from 2011. Since 2017, she has been director of the Ecole d'Art du Beauvaisis in Beauvais and, since 2022, La Maladrerie in Beauvais.

Isabelle de Maison Rouge is an art historian, PhD in art and art sciences, art critic (AICA), independent curator and professor of art history at New York University Paris. An artist-researcher, she is a member of the Art & Flux research team at the ACTE Institute (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/CNRS).