Julien Pacaud: Parallel Worlds and Perpendicular Dreams

The digital collage artworks of French artist and illustrator Julien Pacaud reveal unexpected intersections and juxtapositions between fictitious worlds that seem timeless and spaceless. Despite the use of vintage imagery from the 1900s to the 1970s, somehow distancing the viewer from the present physical reality, each piece rather acts like a portal to parallel universes, a journey into the future or the unconscious, through what the artist defines as “perpendicular dreams”.

Guided by his instinct and influenced by cinematography and TV series such as “Twilight Zone” or “Twin Peaks”, adding the Dada/ surrealist movement among his sources of inspiration, Julien Pacaud has followed his own path towards creating distinct and powerful images where cosmic elements and the wilderness of nature combine with architectural structures, man-made machines and geometrical shapes, often resulting in very interesting symmetries.

In this exploration of potential worlds, we pursue the passion of the artist, who opens the way to time traveling using the mind, as his works question human limits and offer temporary escapes to possible realms of endless realities.