Claire Fontaine
CLAIRE FONTAINE is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use of appropriation and hijacking in her work stems from the same intention: not...Read more
Works
Exhibition view, Arsenale, La Biennale di Venezia, 2024
Exhibition view, Giardini, La Biennale di Venezia, 2024
Untitled (Postcard rack / #me too olympia), 2018
Installation view, MACTE Museum of Contemporary Art of Termoli, 2021