Julie Roch-Cuerrier
The World’s History diluted again / National Geographic Atlas of the World – Sanded World Atlas
in der Kunsthalle
Julie Roch-Cuerrier (b. 1988) lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
She holds an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom (2013-2015) and a BA in Studio
Arts from Concordia University, Canada (2007-2011).
Roch-Cuerrier has exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the London Open triennial in 2015
and most recently at Ncontemporary (London, Turin), Never Apart (Montreal) and as part of
Chromatic (Montreal, Toronto).
She was nominated for the StartPoint Prize (2015), a European competition for art graduate that
toured at the National Gallery in Prague and Arti Et Amicitae in Amsterdam.
Roch-Cuerrier was selected to participate in the 2014 International Print Biennale in Newcastle Upon Tyne,
for which she was awarded the National Glass Centre Residency Prize.
Julie Roch-Cuerrier (b. 1988) lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
She holds an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom (2013-2015) and a BA in Studio
Arts from Concordia University, Canada (2007-2011).
Roch-Cuerrier has exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the London Open triennial in 2015
and most recently at Ncontemporary (London, Turin), Never Apart (Montreal) and as part of
Chromatic (Montreal, Toronto).
She was nominated for the StartPoint Prize (2015), a European competition for art graduate that
toured at the National Gallery in Prague and Arti Et Amicitae in Amsterdam.
Roch-Cuerrier was selected to participate in the 2014 International Print Biennale in Newcastle Upon Tyne,
for which she was awarded the National Glass Centre Residency Prize.
It all started with a book: a 1981 National Geographic atlas that belonged to Roch-Cuerrier’s family.
A two-year research project developed from this object. The maps of the atlas were sanded off and the pigments used to create a special ink sparking reflections
on history and traditional printmaking in a gesture of deconstructing its physical essence and with it its content of man-made separations of countries.
The project therefore questions the vulnerability of the printed page and through it the vanity of our structures in a thought that questions our history and extends into our collective dasein.
It all started with a book: a 1981 National Geographic atlas that belonged to Roch-Cuerrier’s family.
A two-year research project developed from this object. The maps of the atlas were sanded off and the pigments used to create a special ink sparking reflections
on history and traditional printmaking in a gesture of deconstructing its physical essence and with it its content of man-made separations of countries.
The project therefore questions the vulnerability of the printed page and through it the vanity of our structures in a thought that questions our history and extends into our collective dasein.
