Julien Langevin's Projects

BFA Student

Major: Painting

Graduation Year: 2018

Artist Statement:

By writing and exhibiting art and talking and making I am disrupting and changing algorithms. I am editing apparatuses that hold me down and control my body. Queerness holds potential for the ultimate customization of life and time. The possibility of a social existence determined by chosen connections and ambivalent to biology. By expressing my queerness and actively protesting the patriarchy every day, through my work or otherwise, I am sustaining the ability for myself and other gender nonconforming people to exist safely and visibly.
These are paintings of me playing sports in high school.

Biography:

Julien Langevin is a queer artist, critic and social activist based in Portland, Maine. Langevin is primarily interested in the development of the self, particularly the socially deviant self. The focus of their personal work encompasses contemporary issues of queerness, patriarchy, and institutional critique, with a tinge of enthusiasm for metaphysics and phenomenology.