Born in Brussels in 1950, Julien Friedler is the son of Jewish parents from Transylvania (now Romania). His work is deeply atypical, designed to move and be transformed. 

The cycle of paintings on paper presented in this exhibition takes us on an intimate journey, in the form of free associations, which Julien Friedler renders in a powerful, suggestive, archetypal work. The work is an introspective daydream, an imaginary transcription of an ambiguous reality that moves from wonder to disenchantment, from radiance to the disquieting expression of the dark forces that inhabit it. The evocations born of this quasi-hypnotic plunge into the unconscious world are revealed through gesture and color, to be inscribed in an almost automatic writing, like an instinctive trace, on paper.