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Julien Creuzet

Glean 9, Autumn 2025

The Artist's Library

A library for dreaming

Join us in exploring the treasure troves of artists’ libraries. Celebrating books and their writers, editors, publishers, designers and readers, the Artist’s Library is a column about what to read next.

In this conversation for The Artist’s Library, Julien Creuzet reflects on the place of literature within his artistic practice, the importance of intuition, how books serve as both reference points and personal memorials, and how Afro-diasporic histories shape his thinking. He traces the interplay between reading, making, and dreaming, considers the role of art schools and the enduring necessity of imagination.

Born in 1986 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France, and raised from the age of four in Mart (…)

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