Juliette Green – La nourriture est-elle le reflet de l’identité d’un quartier ?, 2024

“The aim of my work is above all to invent stories” says Juliette Green. Since she was a teenager, she has been producing diagrams made up of drawings and texts that give shape to stories she has imagined on the basis of both real and speculative data, and which are sometimes linked to the context in which they are exhibited. Her fictional two-colour diagrams weave networks of answers to questions as varied as “What lies behind the facades of a building?” or “How does a recipe travel through time?”. Juliette Green’s works, which combine drawing, writing, cartography and computer graphics, never take the same path — circular, labyrinthine or linear — they conceive of and represent the world in all its infinite possibilities.

The drawing La nourriture est-elle le reflet de l’identité d’un quartier ? (“Does food reflect the identity of a neighbourhood”) tells the story of a fictional character who discovers a city and devotes attention to the places dedicated to gastronomy. Their observations on the markets, the grocer’s shops, delicatessens, bakeries and restaurants add up to a sociology of the local population’s way of life. Through her diagrams, Juliette Green’s work reveals the realistic and fanciful hypotheses that her character develops about the identity of the city.