Lives and works in Brussels, Claire is a multidisciplinary artist, leading projects and reflections around memory and records. In in-situ installations, she mixes several mediums: drawing, painting, video, writing, engraving, etc.
Claire Ducène (1986, Belgium), visual artist (Painting/Brussels Fine Arts Academy & Photography/Académie de Dessin et des Arts visuels de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean). She also holds a Masters degree in French and Romance languages and literature from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Since 2012, Claire Ducène has had numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions in Belgium, Spain, Norway, Italy and France.
Fascinated by memories and the passage of time, Claire Ducène work is a plastic reflection on memory. Her taste for narration is perceptible in a work that is built around memories and traces, what remains of what. Expressing what remains of the absent, the disappeared, the present, places that were full of life and are now abandoned, mental territories, writings, words that have been said, that have been read, images that have been dreamt…
“What remains” in memories, in archives. What testifies to a past that is gone or in ruins then gives rise to reconstitutions, fictions, collections where the passage of Time has dissipated the contours. Clouds and fog take precedence. Light or darkness takes over the image. Towards another idea, another form, another feeling. It is the recomposition of a memory in its symbolic and amplifying aspects, both linguistic and imaginary. Between dream, unconscious and stopped time.
Site : https://www.claireducene.be/