As she introduced herself in 2006, “Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective, founded in 2004. After deriving her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a ‘readymade artist’ ”. Her “assistants” are Fluvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, an Italian-British artist duo that creates her objects, videos, sculptures, paintings, texts and neon works. Her position of anonymity allows a negation of individual skills or originality and the appropriation of signs, symbols and images of contemporary visual culture. With her acute sense of irony, Claire Fontaine’s practice merges political activism with minimalist forms, referring to artists from the sixties and seventies. She questions political inability in the context of late capitalism by declaring herself an artist on strike. Recalling the use of neon by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Dan Flavin, or Cerith Wyn Evans, her luminous work also deals with the impact of words. (...)

https://pomeranz-collection.com/?q=node/55 (14.12.2021)