Julie Sarloutte

Julie Sarloutte is a painter; but, in his work, no oil or acrylic is spread on the canvas. The cotton skeins used for the so-called “pulled thread” embroidery technique are replaced by turpentine fumes and staining colors.

Julie Sarloutte strolls on the Internet, watches television: from the visual abundance emanating from the screens, she extracts fragments, frozen images, which she selects for their strangeness or their ambiguity. Are we looking here at an image from a TV report about a violently suppressed protest or a scene from a popular series?

The artist, far from claiming to make these real or fictional quotes a political and committed project, conversely claims the position of witness. The one behind the screen, jointly worried and fascinated by the flow of flitting images.

Julie Sarloutte chooses to transform these stills fragmenting a narration into iconic images, and the chosen fraction of a second is transformed under her fingers into slow and meticulous embroidery. The television images regain density through the accumulation of cotton threads, which make the flesh slightly dirty or reddened. Who would like to see this last technique as a nostalgic return to a grandmother's practice would be seriously mistaken. Julie Sarloutte stings and pierces her canvas, her fingers (sometimes) and the faces of the characters she represents, without great complacency towards her models. Witness, for sure, but without inertia.

Discover contemporary artworks by Julie Sarloutte, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary french artists. Artistic domains: Textile Art. Account type: Artist , member since 2018 (Country of origin France). Buy Julie Sarloutte's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist Julie Sarloutte. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.

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