Claire-Jeanne Jezequel

Born in Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1965. Lives and works in ParisClaire-Jeanne Jézéquel has been working in the fields of sculpture and drawing since 1988. Playing with the visible and the tangible, folds, falls, tears, notches, cuts and broken lines arrange, draw and materialize space in a revealed flatness. Between tactile sensation, abstract landscape and minimal architecture, her assemblages of prosaic materials carry within them the traces of the artist’s gestures of both construction and destruction, paradoxically random and controlled. Trained at the Grenoble School of Fine Arts, the Villa Arson in Nice and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris, directed by Pontus Hulten, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel was also a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome in 1992, a resident at the Fondation Cartier in 1993 and winner of the 13th Monumental Art Scholarship in Ivry-sur-Seine in 2001.Her works are regularly exhibited in France: at the Jean Fournier gallery and previously at the Xippas gallery in Paris, la Maréchalerie, Versailles, at the RDV gallery, Nantes, at the Chaufferie, Strasbourg, at the Centre d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivière, and more recently in the stables of the Domaine de Kerguéhennec. Abroad, her works were showed at the New museum in New York, Studio Cristina del Ponte in Locarno, Iselp in Brussels, the Stampflï foundation in Sitges, the Museo di Nuoro in Sardinia, the Arlaud Museum in Lausanne, the Busan Biennale in Korea, the Lage Egal gallery in Berlin or the Sheffer gallery in Sydney in September 2016… As a teacher at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes-Métropole since 1999, she has co-directed the exhibitions “Beau trait fatal”, “Mais où est passé le Youkounkoun” and the research group on contemporary practices of abstraction which led to the exhibition “+ de réalité” in 2008 and the eponymous publication (Jannink editions), as well as the Open Sky Museum project by the artist Eden Morfaux in 2012-2013, and directed its publication (Open Sky Museum, Jannink editions, 2015).