Clémence Amette

Clémence draws life, words and images that go through her head and heart. Her works seem to come directly from her diary, which she started at a very young age without knowing the basics of academic drawing. Here, she finds her expression, confiding her moods and questions, in sketches and texts.

Today, she delivers a look at the everyday and the exceptional, like slogans that click. Compulsive, she creates without constraint, without censorship.

Intuitive, she plays with life's accidents and graphics... and even frames her spots with white to let them breathe.

The result: a huge dose of humanity, tenderness and sincerity in red and black, or blue, direct tones on paper with a thick and comforting touch.

Clémence Amette does not seek to please.

Clémence seeks the pleasure of ink and line, the association of a gesture and a sign.
Her sensibility is first introduced to words, then to the images and concepts bequeathed by the poster artists of Russian revolutionary art, the action painting of a Pollock, but not only, she also counts among her inspirations and masters, the automatic writing of Henri Michaux, the play of Cy Twombly, and the photographic montages of Irving Penn.

The artist questions her exits from the road, her loves, her friendships, welcoming an explosive writing, that of the message that suddenly arrives, imposing itself on her. Words and images at full gallop, which she notes down and which become graphics.

Today, Clémence devotes herself essentially to developing her art. She creates identities, designs and publishing for major companies and collaborates with architectural firms to create signage and decorations.

Clémence wanted to be an artist and a graphic designer, she is Clémette.