Gray Area
Amsterdam Art Week, Pulitzer 2024
Gray Area is composed of two monochromatic digital drawings built around shades of gray, like a broad, faded palette. The theme evokes the phantasmagoric charge of certain garments or accessories. Like a second skin, they merge with their shadows, dissolving our natural identity to enrich it with their own. A kind of role-playing game that allows us to escape our human condition.
The series focuses on the color gray and the ambiguity it conveys. I recently heard Jean-Charles de Castelbajac speaking on the radio about dove gray and its use in the luxury industry, or in the business class cabins of Boeing aircraft, for example. He contrasted this color with the usual range of bright tones he uses in his designs. For me, gray is just as powerful as Castelbajac’s yellow, red, or blue. I am fascinated by this tone and its elusive identity.
Exhibition curated by Julien Rademaker.
Prints on Hight Reflexion Fujiflex paper 250gr.
Alu flush frame and acrylic mounted print.
63 cm x 84 cm, edition of 3.
© Jules Julien Studio 2026