Julien Fesil (b 1993) lives and works in Bordeaux.
After training at ESMI in image production for the video game, film and publishing industries, he explores a constant dialogue between emerging digital and traditional practices, never ceasing to confront them and unite them.
While he embodies his multiple creative personalities, tending towards his identity remains an absolute in itself. His pseudonym and project, Par ∫ Défaut, embodies this, as well as a deliberately marginal and subversive posture of the artist’s recent idea. This approach is manifested in a production whose commitment to an art of excellence is tried out to the curiosity.
Since his first solo exhibition in Bordeaux in 2015, Julien Fesil ∫ Par-Défaut has not only shown his artworks in France but also internationally, notably at the MISP (Museum of 20th–21st Century Art) in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). He has also participated in renowned fairs such as the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais in Paris, Art Basel Miami (festival off) & Artexpo New York in the USA.
In 2018, he founded «Le Chevalet sans tête» workshops/artspaces in Bordeaux, an initiative that brings together creative spaces made available to multidisciplinary artists as well as a set of preparatory classes and apprenticeships dedicated to both to professionals and young public.
According to Julien Fesil ∫ Par-Défaut, opening his workshops is a civic and militant act. He is a mediator of artisanal know-how - as evidenced by his mastery of oil painting - and advocate for an opening of the visual arts to dynamic subcultures, which will shape the academicism of tomorrow.
« Prière de ne pas me toucher. »
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Huile & craie sur toile / Oil & chalk on canvas.
100 x 60 cm.
2025.
« Bref état de la charge mentale du monde à 12h26. »
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Craie sur papier layout / Chalk on layout
29,7 x 42 cm.
2026.
« Sans IA, sans Magritte, sans les mains. »
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Huile & craie sur toile / Oil and chalk on canvas
60 x 30cm.
2025.
« La pendue dans sa maison de poupée. »
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Gravure sur zinc & volume en carton, velours, tirages/aquarelle/craies sur papier 850g.
Etching & cardboard, red velvet, prints/watercolor/chalk on 850g paper.
2025-26.
« Gravure en rouge de la femme à la tête retournée. »
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Gravure sur zinc 10 x 15 cm & tirage sur papier 300g, 21 x 29,7 cm
Etching 10 x 15 cm 'n printing on 300g paper, 21 x 29,7 cm.
2026.
« G.i.F »
Huile & transfert sur toile / Oil & transfert on canvas.
200 x 140 cm.
2011.
« Peinture foraine. » [Panneau_02]
« Anthologie des violences sourdes. »
Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas
220 x 150 cm.
2025.
