Using the logic of collage as a base for his painting practice, Julien Auregan employs a wide
range of marks, materials, and processes, searching for their respective functions within the
individual framework of each image. Through his attempts to mediate between these disparate
techniques and media, the paintings often result in constructions and forms that challenge
themselves, as well as their relationships to their surroundings.

For his exhibition “with & apart from” at Kiralik Depo, Auregan presents a new body of work,
treating the space with the same experimental attitude that forms his studio practice.
As a means to generate different interpretations, the artist employs a dramaturgical setup: a grey carpet
functions both as a container for the works, and a resurgent ghost of the artist’s atelier floor.
Traces of the artist’s footprint, photographed at Kiralik Depo, appear throughout the exhibition,
paired with an improvised work on found wood address the artist’s inner need for experimentation
towards the “now” and the “how.