Julien Baillargeon

Julien Baillargeon is born in 1977. He resides in Paris.
After acquiring a foundation in drawing and color from Penhingen, a preparatory school of art direction and interior architecture, he completed his artistic education at l'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) of Paris. Impassioned by painting, photography and cinema, he has cultivated a versatility through endless and renewed exploration.
Julien’s approach is poetic, sensual and pictorial in order to invite viewers into a contemplative realm.


A Poetics of Presence: The Art of the Unforeseen
At a time when contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by calculation, optimization, and commodification, Julien Baillargeon’s photographic approach stands as a quiet but radical counterpoint. His work does not seek to control, anticipate, or impose meaning; instead, it embraces the unpredictable, the ephemeral, and the unscripted. Rather than seeing the present as something to be mastered or extracted for profit, he approaches it as an adventure, an open field where meaning emerges not from intention but from encounter.
He is inspired by the elements of nature and the human body and applies his vision to subjects with sinuous and evocative forms: bodies, mountai...

Penninghen - Paris
Ecole Natinale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs - Paris

Galerie BASIA EMBIRICOS 2024
MIFAC Documentary Film Festival of Angoulême 2023
Paris Photo Off, IMAGENATION 2021
Nuit Blanche Paris 2021
Paris Photo Off, IMAGENATION 2019
Voix Off Arles 2019
Ethereal Paris, IMAGENATION 2019
Galerie BASIA EMBIRICOS 2017
Salon Des Réalités Nouvelles 2015
FIDH Geneva 2012