Based in Switzerland, Juliette (1997) is an Associate Artist at l’Abri (season 24-25), who graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (interaction pathway) from the HEAD-Geneva in 2019 and a MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in London in 2022.

She works with video, mapping, audio-visual installations and dance, while always using the body as her primary medium. Through her creations, and in an approach that is as educative as introspective, she delves into the concept of diaspora, the collective body and the therapeutic and spiritual dimensions of dance. Her artistic research is enriched by her practice of dancehall, which represents a means for her to reconnect with part of her Jamaican paternal heritage, and to embody the complexity of being third-generation, both white and afro-descendant. Juliette aims to deconstruct the white colonial gaze and the stereotypes it holds regarding dances inherited from fertility, birth, and death rituals.

Since 2018, she has been collaborating with Jamaican dancers and has undertaken in Jamaica a documentary research for her video installation « Reconnec » (which won the Bourses Déliées grant - 2020). She filmed Kingston street parties, interviewed pioneers of dancehall culture and took classes with them. In Switzerland, she organises workshops, inviting these dancers to teach their art and enabling the Swiss public to learn about dancehall culture directly from its pioneers.

A year ago, she set up "Female Dancehall Lab" in Geneva (at Diafa Danse school), where she teaches weekly dance classes. The purpose of this program is to create a space to reconnect with oneself and others, to explore one's body through dance, while learning about dancehall's history and vocabulary.

Her latest project, "Du Dancehall au Hip hop, Navigation au sein de l'Atlantique Noire" (From Dancehall to Hip Hop, navigation inside the Black Atlantic), is a programme of danced lectures and round-table discussions, created in collaboration with Pascal Bah Bois Bunon. This event aims to create a platform of exchange between teachers, students and cultural actors who have a practice of afro-descendant dances in Switzerland, in order to educate on the historical context these cultures, raise awareness of cultural appropriation issues and reflect together on how to implement a more ethical transmission of these cultures in the studios, theatres and clubs.

In her future works, she wants to direct her research on the history of gynaecology and obstetric knowledge, by studying how it is interlinked with witch hunts and colonisation.