CLÉMENTINE BRUNO

Initially rooted in painting, Bruno’s practice references dominant, art historical or institutional, methods of visual representation. Her work seeks to track the persistence of something unique through transient historical forms, structural functions, or established social roles. Interrogating the processes of circulation of images, she frequently references literature and cinema, and employs linguistic tools such as the concepts of sign and of referential system in her work. Through various processes of decontextualisation — in diverse media including painting, but also sculpture, print, and installation — Bruno subverts the familiar, fi­nding presence in void spaces and absent subjects. The ghostly forms and obscured imagery both acknowledge and resist established frameworks for passive visual consumption. Bearing the traces of labor, the works objectify and signify creative processes. Once offered in an exhibition, they become autonomous objects within the greater capitalist system.

Her recent solo and dual-solo exhibitions include: Spectres in Pentimento, Tabula Rasa Gallery（Beijing，2025）； Educational Complex, Tonus (Paris, 2024); CITYBOX, one gee in fog (Geneva, 2024); TOTAL, Paris Internationale (Paris, 2022); 10 to 16, Frieze London (London, 2022); Adam Gordon | Clémentine Bruno, Chapter NY (dual-solo, New York, 2021); Then We Are Both Satisfied, Project Native Informant (London, offsite, 2020); Ironclad Contract, Project Native Informant (London, 2020).

Group exhibitions include: Visions of Fading, Mendes Wood (Brussels, 2025); Rapture, Balice Hertling (Paris, 2024); White Sands ATS-3, Baleno International (Rome, 2023); Untalely, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2023); PNI @ 10, Project Native Informant (London, 2023); One Kiss is All It Takes, Halle Nord (Geneva, 2023); The Sky Above the Roof, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2022); Not Before It Has Forgotten You, Nicoletti Contemporary (London, 2022); For some bags under the eyes, Sans Titre, Paris (2021); Bambi Woods Presents, ERGO (Athens, 2021); Flick Ratio: Degenerative Origins Between the Third Possibility, Space 52 (Athens, 2019); Storytelling, Stoppenbach & Delestre (London, 2020); among others.

Tabula Rasa Gallery