JuliE GAsnieR is an independent multidisciplinary artist whose research axis is articulated around the poetic languages of the body.

In her work, the emphasis is put on vibration, on the instability of sensitive impressions. The forms calls us, femininity and freedom stand out on the border of abstraction, in the need to disfigure our representations.

Author, composer, performer, JuliE GAsnieR has been for years the emotional force of remarkable pop music bands, such as LALAfactory or SuperBravo.

Her new solo project is a musical and a plastic experience: art of collage, cultivated fragility, assumed dissonances, his work, both spontaneous and complex, explores sound and visual matter, always in search of a sensitive balance between evocative power and purity of the first gesture.

We particulary liked the drawing serie entitled "Primary Portraits", more than 600 drawings. They are imaginary portraits that call to all kinds of memories and temporalities, affective, collective or incongruous, and reveal the strange and the unknown in all of us. (The SuperBravo song "Il n'y a plus foule" opens the album Sentinelle with a clip made from this series.)

The accumulation reveals an infinite and fragile face which questions our humanity in its capacity of resonance and empathy, of otherness, especially necessary in those days.

"Primary Portraits" is a playful and wild "hymn" toward differences and singularity, which found an immediate echo with ME.LAND philosophy. That is why we offered JuliE GAsnieR a collaboration. She instantly proposed an extension of the serie we loved and imagined a variation entitled "Primary Kisses" for the ME.LAND collaboration. Each pair will be made on order and will be a unique model, a true work of art because each couple kissing will be different.

JuliE GAsnieR uses tattoo inks to spontaneously hand paint each shoe. A contemporary way of reinventing the technique of patina, finalized with artisanal glazing for exceptional hold over time.

Julie Gasnier