{"id":10155,"date":"2023-04-26T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motoco.fr\/residents\/nicolas-clair-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:46:02","slug":"nicolas-clair","status":"publish","type":"resident","link":"https:\/\/www.motoco.fr\/en\/residents\/nicolas-clair\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Clair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"228\">\u201cI work, let\u2019s say, toward something like a generalized collage\u2014a forced encounter between autobiographical elements, forms and techniques borrowed from experimental art, and cultural references that I have read, seen, or heard.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"814\">What is it about? I think that\u2014perhaps with the exception of the drawing series titled <em data-start=\"317\" data-end=\"328\">Les lents<\/em>, and even then\u2014one possible backdrop is the Internet and widespread digitization, the absolutely delirious accumulation of archives currently underway, and the occasional discovery of texts, images, or simply testimonies of ways of life that strike us as extraordinary. As for collage, in the broad sense, I believe too much importance is generally given to the question of meaning, whereas I am searching for something closer to surprise and reversal\u2014reversal of meaning, for example.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"816\" data-end=\"906\">It\u2019s a big word, but my ideal of art is multidimensional, multidirectional, and personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Career<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>\u201cAfter graduating in art in 2011 from the Villa Arson, the Fine Arts school in Nice, I believed that video alone could \u2018solve\u2019 all the problems that confronted me\u2014supported by meticulous sound work. After going around in circles for quite some time, it became clear that I could not manage with these means alone. Today, I try to reintegrate drawing, text, and lightweight images into my practice, without abandoning video and sound material.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Exhibitions<\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"1398\" data-end=\"1469\">2021 \u2013 Carte blanche to Nicolas Clair, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris<br \/>\n2020 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1510\">This Is the Way the World Ends<\/em>, UTOPIA Residency, Piedigriggio<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">2019 \u2013 <\/span><em style=\"font-size: inherit;\" data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1571\">Turtle BIENVENUE<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre stand, Cit\u00e9 des Arts, Paris<br \/>\n<\/span>2016 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1656\">La libert\u00e9 sans nom<\/em>, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch<br \/>\n2016 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1690\" data-end=\"1712\">Waiting for Carnaval<\/em>, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris<br \/>\n2012 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1784\">Vid\u00e9o d\u2019art sur grand \u00e9cran<\/em>, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne, Nice<br \/>\n2011 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1848\">Hannibal der Blau Reiter<\/em>, Galerie Vorschau, Munich<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Publications\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"1973\">2021 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1909\" data-end=\"1928\">Un truc come true<\/em>, audio cassette, Transcachette Tapes Label<br \/>\n2021 \u2013 <em data-start=\"1982\" data-end=\"1993\">Les lents<\/em>, \u00c9ditions Clair<br \/>\n2020 \u2013 <em data-start=\"2020\" data-end=\"2052\">Christine et le feu d\u2019artifice<\/em>, in <em data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2074\">\u00c0 partir de n\u00b02<\/em>, \u00c9ditions Adverse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI work, let\u2019s say, toward something like a generalized collage\u2014a forced encounter between autobiographical elements, forms and techniques borrowed from experimental art, and cultural references that I have read, seen, 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