Clarisse
Performance & Visual Arts
on canvas - on stage
forms dissolve - ink stains
nothing is fixed - nothing is safe
body - wired to frequency
pulsing between - tension & ecstasy
flesh fragments - in my environment
pigments - smear memories
where experience - devours identity
BioClarisse was raised in the countryside, she started music and theater at an early age in her hometown under the Belgian black sun, with the oldest coal mines of the country as landscape.
Between the punk scene and her catholic education, her feminine rage and her lack of spiritual meanings, she found her way through philosophy, painting, sound and multiple artistic fields.
“Soleil noir”
“The woman with 1,000 faces”
“The woman with 1,000 faces”
“Troubles are coming”
“Soleil Noir” (ink) was painted while listening to the Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith song “Peradam” on repeat during 4 days in her childhood’s bedroom.
“The woman with 1,000 faces” (chalk and ink) explores the quest to recover the crashed parts of oneself and all the archetypes that are built over the course of an existence.
“Troubles are coming” (ink) looks deeper at our attempt to build limits to protect our psyche and determine ourselves based on the trials that arise.
“Matrice” (ink & lithography)
This one emerged after playing bass guitar for hours, a visual trace of the bass lines still resonating through the core.
“Cyclone” (gouache painting)
A little white creature who likes to create vortices on stage and take the spotlight wherever she goes.
“Matrice”
“Bestiary” (pencil)
Wild creatures that incubate inside the human body and come out when the time is right (hawk, fox, beetle, moth,…).
“Post Tenebras Spero Lucem”
Kitsune. Geisha night walk.
Beetle. Queen sized, vertical sunrise.
Moth. Rebirth of shattered dreams.
Beast from the fire. Fed with rage and promised lands implanted.