Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer gouffre bleu, French Pavilion catalog, 60th Venice Biennale
Julien Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale, held from April 20 to November 24, 2024. His catalog carries a title that stretches like a great wave: Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer gouffre bleu.
The 368-page volume, designed by Alliage and WIP Office, centers on a constellation of collages and seventy text fragments from authors of the African diaspora. White is replaced with silver ink that catches light like reflections on water, while the black layer is removed so that darkness itself shines and the images vibrate in unexpected colors.
Set in AL Sigla Neretta and Neretta Corsiva, typefaces designed by Alex Lescieux as a revival of Umberto Fenocchio’s FTC Sigla, an Italian version of Times, the catalog emphasizes Creuzet’s shifting, diasporic poetics. Like its title, it moves and resonates, highlighting diasporic histories and decolonial stakes, where poetry, collage, and voice converge in a tide that resists erasure.
