Juliette Gampert

Juliette Gampert is a performer and video artist, a graduate of a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from HEAD and a Master’s in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in London. Her artistic practice is rooted in dancehall, a culture born from Jamaican soundsystems, through which she explores and reconnects with her paternal heritage. She is interested in dances stemming from fertility rituals and seeks to challenge the Western gaze on these dances, by restoring them to their original context.
She won the 2019 Visual Arts Déliées Grant with Reconnec, a video installation that takes us to the heart of the dancehall scene in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2023, she founded the Female Dancehall Lab, a platform for workshops and classes aimed at providing a stage for dancehall dancers touring in Europe. She presented her performance Des algues pour racines at Hit in 2021, and more recently at Arboretum, at the Théâtre de l'Orangerie in June 2024. She is currently exploring how to bring so-called “popular” cultures to institutional stages without betraying their form, resisting the codes and aesthetics of the contemporary scene.