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Julien Berthier graduated from l’école des Beaux-Arts de Paris and works with galleries in France, Germany and Italy.

“Chappelle,” Julien Berthier

“No Print,” Julien Berthier

“Self,” Julien Berthier

LP: Julien, what song do you wish would have been playing during your first kiss?

JB:”After laughter comes tears” by Wendy Rene. I sure did wish someone would have warned me.

LP: Got any good jokes?

JB: A guy meets a friend. He says, “Wow man, yesterday at a family dinner I made a terrible slip of the toungue. Instead of saying to my mother ‘would you please hand me the salt’ I said ‘you ruined my life you bitch.’”

JB: Humour is a tool. Like an entry door. But what has to be defined is the laugh we are looking for. In my work I like when people start smiling and when suddenly the smile is wrong. Because the work deals with social and political issues. The proposals are sort of ghostly solutions that in the end just enlarge the matters through another angle. In fact, more than humour, I guess we could talk about irony in one of its definition: to raise questions pretending to be ignorant.

LP: What do you feel is your most successful piece and why?

JB: The next one for sure.

Don’t forget to check out more of Julien’s work on his site!

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Lindsay Preston is an artist and graphic designer from San Diego. In “Lindsay’s Quick Queries”, Lindsay brings you work by contemporary artists, and answers to the questions everyone has been wondering about them, like “pancakes or waffles?”