Juliette Jouannais is both a painter and a sculptor. In her work, the subject often evolves into an interweaving of lines and planes, unified by color—whether approached in monochrome or, conversely, dispersed into the folds of polychromy. In all cases, her work evokes a sense of visual fragmentation and disorientation, stirred by the trembling of forms, the interplay of solids and voids, and the branching of color. Moving from surface to volume, her reliefs meander in a graceful motion where line, form, and plane combine to reveal a perception of the world as a dazzling interplay of light and vision—an immersion into the field of color.
— Philippe Cyroulnik,
Director of the Contemporary Art Center of Montbéliard

For Juliette Jouannais, the art of paper cutouts is an extension of drawing, a mode of expression that runs through all her visual research. Alongside her constant quest to “find the structure of things,” she maintains a sculptural concern for space and form, for inside and outside—a concern equally present in her ceramic works and her series of sculptural paper pieces. Her work radiates a true “inner light,” a visual aura found in the interplay between monochrome and polychrome surfaces, whether revealed or deliberately concealed. In her gouache-painted papers, multiple layers of ambivalence unfold: behind the quiet poetry of her lacework lies an almost organic presence, more unsettling than it may first appear—intimate entanglements, unspoken thoughts, and secrets. Beneath the delicate interlacing of colors lies the certainty that what is to be seen is never fully revealed.
— Marie Deparis,
Art historian and critic