Juliette Green – Dans le train, 2024

“The aim of my work is above all to invent stories” says Juliette Green. Since she was a teenager, she has been producing diagrams made up of drawings and texts that give shape to stories she has imagined on the basis of both real and speculative data, and which are sometimes linked to the context in which they are exhibited. Her fictional two-colour diagrams weave networks of answers to questions as varied as “What lies behind the facades of a building?” or “How does a recipe travel through time?”. Juliette Green’s works, which combine drawing, writing, cartography and computer graphics, never take the same path — circular, labyrinthine or linear — they conceive of and represent the world in all its infinite possibilities.

As befits a work exhibited in Les Grandes Locos, a former locomotive repair depot, Dans le train (“In the train”) celebrates the beauty of the brief, silent encounters that take place on trains. Juliette Green’s drawings identify the things in common that can exist between people who sit next to each other in these collective, public places: some of them lived in the same apartment at a fifteen year interval, others went to the same concert, some have used the same password. Her work reveals how, without being aware of it, everyone shares an array of experiences and connections with their fellow citizens.