PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Juliette Mock (1992, Strasbourg) weaves connections in her work between desire, materials, and narratives. Her drawings and sculptures shift their subject from one material to another, while questioning the very substance from which they are made. She lives and works between Seine-Saint-Denis and the village of Mesnil-sur-Oger, where she participates in the collective artistic project Maison Louis Jardin. She has exhibited notably at the Frac Lorraine (2019), the Frac Champagne-Ardenne (2022), and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne as part of the Artpress Biennale (2020). Her studio is based at Poush in Aubervilliers.
Belonging to a generation that has absorbed the mechanisms of artistic production rooted in the everyday and in narrative—whether fictional or autofictional—Juliette Mock creates works that draw on a personal and often mundane material life while effacing the subjectivity of the author. She allows form and motif to generate the possibility of narrative. She is not afraid to produce works that evoke a slightly obsolete emotion. In the manner of Bas Jan Ader, she imbues her works with a restrained, old-fashioned romanticism. The objects and images she produces reveal a tension between grace and banality, between beauty and slackness.
Elsa Bezaury
While in residence at Passages, Juliette Mock led workshops with primary and middle school students focused on the concept of images: their meanings, how to interpret them, transform them, and retell them. Using a selection of images from her personal collections, the students were invited to cut, recombine, and merge them to create new visual narratives and new images.
These workshop sessions with Juliette Mock contributed to an arts and cultural education project in schools titled “My First Exhibition Curation,” which immersed students in the process of designing an exhibition from start to finish. The project’s main objective was to foster encounters between students, artworks, and the artist. In addition to working with Juliette Mock, the students also explored the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection in Reims.
The final outcome of the project, the exhibition Corpus, will be on view at Passages from April 30 to May 16, 2026.
