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4/7/2007

Claire Fontaine

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Get Lost

Claire Fontaine is the pseudonym of a British-Italian duo based in Paris who defines herself as a readymade artist: a “whatever singularity” born out of the standardization of identities produced by contemporary capitalism. With sculptures of brick-books, neon signs, videos, and texts, Claire Fontaine pursues militant and subversive strategies, albeit ones that appear mute and impotent, aware of the impossibility of creating real interruptions in the logic of power and the functioning of its concrete devices.

What remains is the challenge of “human strike,” the strike of a formless and indefinable subjectivity that compromises any mechanism of identification and normalization. Unable to provoke any actual political transformations, art instead reveals the urgent necessity for its viewers to enact interruptions and revolt. Claire Fontaine is nothing but an assistant in this process.

Get Lost is a new video about the fantasies and phantoms that migrate into our imagination from the pages of fashion magazines. These artificial and enhanced faces appear and disappear, accompanied by
an endlessly repeated phrase from Hamlet, “I did love you once”. On the floor are photocopies of a 1999 text by the collective Tiqqun, which denounces the alienation of contemporary relations and remind us that we all belong to the same libidinal fabric, that inside capitalism virginity is not possible, and that power-relations always pass through bodies.

Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du President Wilson - Paris

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