The notion of the body is essential.
As a lifelong dancer I think I unconsciously want to link my body and my gestures to my medium.
I seek to invoke processes of oppression and constraint. I use common objects and materials that I divert to make them exist in unusual settings. I play with the use and characteristics of the materials. The arrangement of these different elements attempts to raise questions about the physical and psychological constraints that we undergo in our daily lives.
My work is based on a questioning and dichotomous research creating tensions, analogies and paradoxes.
A metamorphosis towards intimacy, fragility, memory, and transmission then emerged. Often in the form of a diptych, (face to face / back to back) playing with the boundaries between the viewer and the object. This in-between is my guiding line. Through encounters, transfers, bridges are built between the witnesses and myself.I link fortuitous moments of life into a meaningful unity.
Clara Rivault (visual artist) born in 1991, lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-arts de Montpellier ESBA.MOCO and from a Master's degree at La Cambre in Brussels. She then joined the Research Laboratory entitled "Ceramics as Experience" directed by the artist Michel Paysant at the Beaux-Arts de Limoges.
Currently in residence at the "Poush" studio in Clichy, she is one of 170 artists in the Manifesto incubator. Close collaboration with craftsmen is an integral part of her work. She explores several mediums such as bronze, blown glass and porcelain. Her practice is multidisciplinary. The notion of the body is paramount. Influenced by Japanese aesthetics as written by Tanizaki or Kawabata, whose notion of ambiguity is marked by ellipsis and equivocation; as well as the concept of "Wabi-Sabi" which means to seek beauty in imperfect, impermanent and incomplete things.