Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon

Gallery Hours Saturday-Wednesday: 11 am–5 pm Thursday & Friday: 11 am–8 pmAbout the Exhibition Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Le Blanc Mesnil, France, lives Paris) has reimagined his French Pavillion from the 60th Venice Biennale for The Bell. An immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon (2024) extends Creuzet’s focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures. A liquid ecosystem of voice, texture, sound, and moving image as divine presence, this multisensorial project is deeply sonic and draws from hip-hop, jazz, and other musical forms and bodily gestures across the African diaspora. Creuzet’s artistic practice has long referenced legacies of colonialism, and his challenge to the architecture and history of the French Pavilion extends to Brown University’s campus and Providence’s centrality within the Black Atlantic. In development since 2020, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon began as an exhibition co-commissioned by The Bell and Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble and its director, Céline Kopp. The 2023 announcement that Creuzet would represent France in the 60th Venice Biennale evolved the project: Kopp and curator Cindy Sissokho organized a prelude survey of Crezuet’s work in fall of 2023 at Le Magasin titled Oh t??léphone, oracle noir (…), followed by Kopp and Sissokho’s curation of the Venice Pavilion in 2024. The Bell is the first site of the U.S. presentation of Attila cataract (…), which will tour to Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University and The Gund at Kenyon College. Extensive scholarship on Brown’s campus engages with the theorists, activists, and artists, such as Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and Aimé Césaire, who propel Creuzet’s thinking. The Bell will develop a publication in both French and English, which will emerge from a public symposium on Creuzet’s practice in relation to the Caribbean diaspora that will be held at Brown on April 10, 11, and 12, 2025.CreditsJulien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon was originated for the French Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale by curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho. The project ⁠is made possible at Brown by generous support from Steve Brown ’05 and Kate Quinlin, Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Etant donnés, a program of Villa Albertine, and Institut français on behalf of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Culture. The project was produced by Institut français, operator of the French Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia on behalf of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, with the exceptional support of the CHANEL Culture Fund and the support of the LUMA Foundation. Technical partner, iDzia; in partnership with La Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique, Le Millénaire de Caen, and La Fondation des Artistes.