Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Le Blanc Mesnil, France, lives Paris) has reimagined his French Pavillion from the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) for The Bell: an immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation that extends his 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 its centrality within the Black Atlantic. 

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 was originated for the French Pavilion by curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho. The project ⁠is made possible at Brown by generous support from Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Etant donnés, a program of Villa Albertine, and Institut français.