Juliet Vles

Born 1950 in Rotterdam NL. Of french-swiss nationality. Lives and works in the South of France. Essentially an abstract painter and sculptor, whose work is mainly to be found in arte povera and minimal art collections, the artists second area of interest is satirical drawing and collage in a realistic or surrealistic style.

TRANS'CEREBRAL
The works of the transCerebral series are a critical and satirical reflexion on the ambiguous role of the brain in our society. Far from being the simple instrument of rationality it is supposed to be, our brain often acts as undercover agent at the service of our most sordid instincts, sneakily substituting rationality by rationalisation.
Metaphor of the schizophrenic condition of human intelligence, these images denounce the alarming discrepancy between our cognitive intelligence and our incapacity to transfer this knowledge into our social life. On the one hand, we are able to fly to Mars, to perform complex medical operations and to construct skyscrapers, bridges and any amount of lethal weapons. On the other hand, we are unable to master even our most basic instincts, and we seem to be wholly incapable to put our technical intelligence to intelligent, e.g. constructive use. This disparity m...

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection) :
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2019 "MYOPIC MASTERMIND"
digital exhibition of the transCerebral series at he Annual Research Day at the School of Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNs), University of Maastricht, Netherlands
2017 'TRANSCEREBRAL"
digital exhibition of the
transCerebral series
at the Brain Awareness Week
THE BERLIN SCHOOL OF
MIND AND BRAIN
Humboldt University Berlin
2016 "Hirngespinste" Digital projection of the transCerebral-series during BrainFair week at the ETH Zürich, CH, organised by the Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich (ZNZ) in collaboration with LifeScience Zürich (Dr. Isabel Klusman)
2014-15 KRYPTA
Château de Mons, Caussens (F)
21 septembre 2014 - 31 décembre 2015
TRANSCEREBRAL
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle / La Semaine du Cerveau, ISCT Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse / Forum des Sciences Cognitives / Université René Descartes, Cognivence, Paris
2013 TAALTRALIES
Arcades, Bordeaux (F)
2011 POESIE PEINTE
Edition Parole, Zürich (CH)
2007 LÂMINA
Château Prieural de Monsempron-Libos (F)
Les Tanneries, Nérac (F)
2004 WITWATER
Château d’Aubiac (F)
2002 NUMA ou la Géométrie de la Paix
Château d’Aubiac
2001 NON DECET
Les Tanneries, Nérac
Chant...