
Julien FOURNIER is an acrobat, actor and director.
He lives and works in Brussels since 2009.
He divides his time between writing circus-related plays and black and white charcoal drawings.
Trained in Russian swings and acrobatic lifts that he practiced for many years, his work today addresses the notions of the decline of performance, the abandonment or search for new skills, the aesthetic break and the question of meaning and expressiveness in a circus writing.
Fascinated by the (r)evolutions that have already taken place in other art forms, particularly the plastic arts, he finds in his own acrobatic decline the material for exploring other forms of narrative. In 2012, he creates L'Habeas Corpus Cie in which he successively creates REVERSO, Avant l'Homme, il n'y a que des surfaces and BURNING (I did not die and yet no life remained). Tackling sometimes burning subjects of current affairs, he multiplies collaborations and crossbreeding between documentaries, fictions, short formats, audiovisuals...