Jules Galais is originally from New Caledonia. He arrived in metropolitan France in 2011. After studying for three years at the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he went on to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts-décoratifs in Paris, where he obtained his diploma with the jury's congratulations in 2019. He has exhibited his work in several exhibitions including "Fenêtre sur Cour" at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, and more recently in a group exhibition for and with young artists entitled "Pas Besoin de Constat" in Chagny.
In an intuitive dialogue with the History of Sculpture and materials, I use both traditional and quasi-industrial techniques, revealing volumes that often coexist with the scale of the body, with unitary forms, whose colours are often inherent to the materials. In this way I try to create a public, physical situation within the real space, the sculptures physically taking on the spectator and the space in which they are located.
My work maintains a strong relationship to the History of Sculpture and its historical forms, to the genealogy of forms, as well as to everything that is built. Nourished by physics, ancient civil engineering, geometry and industry, I develop a repertoire of forms that are often pure, abstract and geometrical, which can take on industrial and archaic forms.
In an intuitive dialogue with the History of Sculpture and materials, I use both traditional and quasi-industrial techniques, revealing volumes that often coexist with the scale of the body, with unitary forms, whose colour is often inherent to the materials. In this way I try to create a public, physical situation within the real space, the sculptures physically taking the spectator and the space in which they are located to one side.
