JULIEN SEGARD

A view from nowhere

Julien Segard
Julien Segard (b. 1980, Martigues, France) earned an MFA at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-
Arts de Paris (2008) and was a student in Richard Deacon’s studio and a BFA at University of Provence,
Aix-en-Provence (2004). Segard lives and works in Goa and Marseilles. Select solo exhibitions include
A view from nowhere, Experimenter, Kolkata (2021); Dark was the night, Experimenter, Kolkata
(2020); A Second Coming, Experimenter, Kolkata (2019); Anywhere But Here, Experimenter, Kolkata
(2015); Between the shelter and the temple, The Rose project space Peregrinations, Ilan Engel
Gallery, Paris; Toxic, ENSBA, Fine Arts School of Paris (2008); Shape of a city, Alliance Française,
Kumasi, Ghana (2007); Toulon, the corps of a square, Remparts Gallery, Toulon, France (2006);
Select group exhibitions include Sex Toys for Collectors, New Delhi (2019); I Wish to Let You Fall
Out of My Hands (Chapter II), Experimenter, Kolkata (2018); Sensorium, Sunaparanta, Goa Centre
for the Arts, Goa; Raster – Emerging from the grid, Experimenter, Kolkata (2016); Urban Utopia, Birla
Academy, Kolkata, (2014); Lateral, Kona, New Delhi (2013); Dessins contemporains, Centre culturel
colombier, Rennes; W 113, New Delhi (2013); Subliminal Metroplis, Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi
(2012); Sarai reader with Asim Waqif, 9 circuits, Ashhar Farooqui, Raakesh Sukesh, curated by Raqs
Media collective, Devi Art Foundation (2012).
A View From Nowhere
Experimenter presents A View From Nowhere, an immersive solo by Julien Segard at Experimenter
– Hindusthan Road. Rooted in experiences of solitude and silence within a remote, rustic cabin in

passage of time, and the fragile equilibrium we anchor ourselves to.

the crevices of Segard’s own mind. It is this sliver of view that Segard uses as a tool to underscore
the fragility of our foundational interior relationships with the exterior.

For Segard, the cabin symbolises on the one hand precarious experiences of ephemerality, withdrawal
and rupture, but on the other – memories of childhood, the wonderment with time and its perceived
speed, of transformation of day into night and the changing of seasons– from silent spring to harsh

absence. Using a range of found paper to make large collages, charcoal drawings and paintings,

Segard builds an environment that engulfs the viewer, embedding them deep within the minuteness

these extremities at the same time, he touches upon the bodily and perceptual negotiation of co-
existing in an intimately familiar interior in the backdrop of an unknown limitless exterior.
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
Installation view, Experimenter, Kolkata
 Julien Segard

Silent spring

Charcoal and chalk on found paper and wood

118 x 183 in
2021
 Julien Segard

A view from nowhere III

Charcoal on paper
60 x 158 in
2021
 Julien Segard

A view from nowhere IV

Charcoal on paper
58 x 60 in
2021
 Julien Segard

A view from nowhere V

Charcoal on paper
59 x 59 in
2021
 Julien Segard

Dustlight

Charcoal and chalk on paper

112x 64 in, 33.5 x 64 in
2021
 Julien Segard

A-rebours

Charcoal on paper
12 x 16.5 in
2021
 Julien Segard

Apollo’s lore

Charcoal on paper
15.5 x 17.5 in
2021