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Born in 2000, Julie Hostin graduted from Les Beaux Arts de Rennes in 2025.
A figurative painter, Julie Hostin most often works on recycled materials, particularly wood or medium-density fibreboard scraps that she finds in DIY stores. These materials, which have already lived a previous life, provide her with a base. She uses their colour, texture, grain and sometimes even their flaws to bring her forms to life. These forms often resemble recognisable objects or recompositions of objects or animals whose use or nature has been diverted. Swiss Army knife crabs, mushrooms that come to life, a trio of merry-go-round horses set free and moved away - so many unexpected subjects that catch the eye. The astonishing simplicity of the compositions also adds depth to the works by focusing our attention on the essential. But what is essential in the image, which generally consists of a central figure, is intriguing enough to make us want to linger over it several times. Julie Hostin's work is both raw and delicate. Her scenography is equally so. She often strives to avoid reducing the presentation of her works to a simple hanging of paintings, playing with forms and space, for example by creating volumes out of cut wood, to serve the purpose of her paintings as much as to bring a dynamic scenography to the fore.