Born in Avignon (Fr) in 1995, Clémentine Blaison VanDenHende lives and works between Brussels, Berlin and France. She graduated from the Design School of Nantes Atlantique in 2016 then from Villa Arson in 2023 (Fine Art School of Nice). She also followed an exchange program in Art Practice and Critical Tools at ERG (School of Graphic Research of Bruxelles).

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After starting her career as a junior industrial designer, she moved to Berlin in 2016 to work with OMSK Social Club. She is hosted at Greenhouse (an artist residency) where she develops a self- taught artistic practice shaped by the surrounding post-industrial environment. She later moved to Rennes to work as an art handler, before joining the Villa Arson in Nice in 2018.

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These five years in the hyper-surveilled French Riviera metropolis led her to reflect on new forms of resilience, ways of imagining political escape routes, and creating within the blind spots of contemporary ruins.

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Inspired by the local landscapes she inhabits and her personal experience of corporate environments, she interweaves these singular ecosystems to imagine (in)coherencies where the poetic and the political converse.

 

Clémentine stages modified or abandoned zones and explores what threatens or illuminates them, waiting, solitude, automation, isolation, perhaps. Her work is also fed by speculative and referential research that experiments with connections between living organisms and the backstage of a post-capitalist/Anthropocene world. She weaves theoretical links between different concepts and projects them through a hybrid plasticity.

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Her practice is transdisciplinary, spanning performance, low-tech sculpture, multimedia, and drawing.