Boogie-Wall is pleased to present Clémence Vazard: Beyond Self Reflection.
In anticipation of the artist’s parallel exhibition at the gallery from August 27 to October 18 2020, this presentation will feature a selection of ten artworks taken from the artist's interdisciplinary artistic practice questions and empowers female representation.
Paris-based artist Clémence Vazard, draws inspiration to reintroduce the articulation of socially relevant issues within a fine art idiom both from her own experiences and from the intimate stories of the women she gives voices to. Vazard's work addresses feminist issues with intimate narratives.
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HER CANVAS IS THE MIRROR, HER PAINT IS THE LIPSTICK
TWO MATERIALS REPRESENTING AND SYMBOLISING THE BEAUTY STANDARDS
IMPOSED ON WOMEN
AND AT THE SAME TIME ARE DIVERTED TO EXPRESS AN EMPOWERING MESSAGE
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"ACROSS THE HISTORY OF ART, NO ARTIST HAS EVER USED LIPSTICK ON A MIRROR FOIL AND I FELT IT WAS MY RIGHT NEW OWN WAY OF EXPRESSING MY ART, FIRST OF ALL BECAUSE LIPSTICK IS AN INTIMATE OBJECT THAT WE USE EVERY DAY, THAT WE LEARN TO USE AND SHARE EACH OTHER, IT IS SOMETHING REALLY AND SPECIFICALLY CONNECTED TO WOMEN. SECONDLY, I WAS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN TRANSFORMING THIS COMMON OBJECT INTO A FINE ART TOOL."
- CLEMENCE VAZARD
Clemence Vazard uses everyday objects in women's lives, which respond to the artist's desire to create an intamacy between the work of art and the spectator. The letters of the text are written from left to right, giving the strange impression of having been written by a person on the other side of the mirror in front of which the spectator stands. The color red was chosen for its diversity. However, the color is also symbolic. It represents the blood of women, with what naturally occurs every month, but also the blood coming from violence that women are victims of every day.
Beyond Self-Reflection was born in Mexico 2020, where Clémence asked Mexican women to send her a sentence that they must keep silent in order to be accepted (by society, their families, their colleagues, their spouses, their friends). She received strong, powerful, heartbreaking and moving statements that she wrote in lipstick on the mirror paper stretched over a frame. The works transform tools of oppression into tools of expression.
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I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF INTIMATE STORIES TO CHANGE HISTORY.
WHAT I WANT AS AN ARTIST, IS TO CREATE INSPIRING ARTWORKS FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK UP THEIR TRUE-SELf.
- Clemence Vazard
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