Clément Denis - THE INNERWORLDS OF A MOTIONLESS NOMAD

About

Denis has spent the last five years in places that have opened up his palette of colors: Noirmoutier, his home island, where he spent his first confinement and which gave rise to the River Song series on climate disruption; Paris , the city in which he lived and where he spent several months without painting, paralyzed by the fear of losing his companion who was ill at the time, which inspired him the Confusion des sentiments (Confusion of feelings) series where he weaves couples to make their love eternal ; Vétheuil, where he settled to help his companion heal, and where he lives in Claude Monet’s former house, below Joan Mitchell’s, in a setting of water, green hills and chalk cliffs that inspired his latest series, Peindre le vent.

A message from the artist:

“To introduce my work in the United States, I have chosen to invite viewers into a realm where different archetypes coexist within oneself. All the figures portrayed in L’Inneworld I and Il peint son monde are archetypes I have already drawn in my body of work : all these faces, all these worlds , all these memories and identities that are the core of my reflections. Drawing upon the psychoanalytic term, I seek to provoke introspection and foster a deeper understanding of the complexities that shape our individual identities and human experiences; love, nature and identity are the three recurring themes of my work. From the exploration of queer identity to the experience of exile and the manifestation of the animus, each piece delves into a distinct facet of the human psyche.”