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Etienne Clement

http://www.etienneclement.com
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biography

Etienne Clément lives and works in London and Paris and was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2007 at Bloomberg SPACE, London.

 

statement

When it comes to creative play, there are two types of children. Those who build structures, be they complex towers in their minds or structures with Meccano, and those who build stories; not that the two are mutually exclusive but in play they often polarise. The child’s theatre, a cardboard interior often made in the form of a pop-up book, becomes the ultimate non-architectural space. It is all innards and no architectonic structure. It is all dress and no frame, whilst the Meccano tower is the essence of rationalised integrity with little space for humanity. This of course is an unacceptable dichotomy. Etienne Clément’s intensely alluring but deviously complex photographic works weave these two types of play together. The formal drama of architectural photography abuts the personal and political allegories of his play-mobile-esque narratives. They jar, when Clément wants them to and then merge in a tricksy fashion when he wants to entice the viewer into closer communion.

 

related links

http://www.eyestorm.com/etienne-clement.html

 

exhibitions

  • ARTfutures 2007

    7th March — 12th March 2007
    Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD
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