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Clémence Vazard is a Paris based artist whose interdisciplinaryartistic practice explores gendered violence and femalerepresentation. After graduating with a Master in Arts and Culture Studies at theSorbonne in Paris in 2009, the artist exhibited her work ininternational art festivals such as Chromatic Festival in Montrealand Passion for Freedom Festival in London and had several soloand group shows in London (M&C Saatchi), Paris (Galerie 21, FGOBarbara, Le Carreau du Temple...), Avignon (City Hall) and the US(Central Features Gallery).In 2017, a few months before #metoo, she engaged 12 women toreclaim their intimate stories by asking them one question: “What isyour first memory of being harassed?”. With these authentictestimonies and powerful portraits the artist created an immersivevisual and sound installation called #monpremierharcelement(#myfirstharassment). By giving these women the rare opportunity tospeak up, be listened to and believed, Clémence Vazardtransformed intimate stories into political matters. Recently, Clémence Vazard launched a multidisciplinary art projectcalled "Sois Belle et Tais-Toi "(Be pretty and shut up) to denouncethe negative impact of the beauty injunction on women’s rights. In aperformance, the artist traces the outline of her body with lipstickon a mirror, reminiscent of the traces left on the crime scenes.Clémence Vazard engages the audience to participate until sheremoves the plaster covering her lips. By freeing herself from thestereotypes and representation norms, Clémence Vazard sends amessage to other women that no beauty standard should interferewith the construction of their identity. Clémence is a thought leaderin art and feminism, the artist is regularly invited to give talks oreven museum lectures about women artists and feministmovements. She recently co-founded “META collective” with 13French womenartists. In a year only, the collective has already beeninvited to exhibit in galleries and Art Centres in Paris.

T I T LE :    SOIS BELLE ET TAIS TOI2019MEDIUM :  PHOTOGRAPhS , V IDEO,INSTALLAT ION AND PERFORMANCE

P E R F O R M I N G A R T

The "Sois Belle et Tais Toi" ("Be Pretty and Shut Up") project takes several forms, through which Clémence Vazarddenounces the negative impact of the injunction to beauty on women's rights. Here again, the artist's approach is based on personal experience and invites each woman to express her uniqueness, tofree herself from stereotypes.

The injunction to beauty is one of the many psychological and physical violences we suffer as women. On the occasion ofInternational Women's Day, the artist launched a video in which she staged herself, slowly removing the lipstick thatprevented her from expressing herself.  Clémence Vazard also develops this reflection through a performance where she traces the outline of her body with lipstickon a mirror, reminiscent of the traces left on the crime scenes and engages the audience to free herself from thestereotypes and representation norms.

"Originally it was mainly a matter of expressing apersonal feeling, but I quickly realized that thisintimate reflection is shared by all women,regardless of their culture, origin, age..." 

                   ClémenceVazard

PERFORMANCE "SOIS BELLE ET TAIS TOI" - MAY 2019 PARIS / JUNE 2019 LONDON

LINK TO VIDEO OF THE PERFORMANCE

T I T L E : 5 5 M I N U T E S2 0 1 9V I D E O A N D I N S T A L L A T I O N ( D R E S S I N G T A B L E , C H A I R , T A B L E T , O N E - W A YM I R R O R )

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55 is the average number of minutes a woman spends each daytaking care of her appearance.* Alerted by this statistic, ClémenceVazard made a video in which she staged herself, gluing and thenpeeling off a plaster covered with lipstick on her mouth. The artistthus manifests the impossibility of expressing her singularity, trappedin the boxes of the norms of representation. Placed behind a one-way mirror, the original 14-second video isslowed down to 55 minutes. The spectator is invited to sit in front ofa dressing table, a piece of furniture representing the time spenttaking care of our physical appearance, to watch the video for 55minutes. Everyone can thus become aware of time, which soonbecomes unbearable, absurd. *TODAY/AOL "Ideal to Real Body Image" Survey (2014)

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T I T L E : W H A T I C A N ' T S A Y2 0 1 9V I D E O I N S T A L L A T I O N( V I D E O P R O J E C T O R , S M O K E DM I R R O R P L A T E , W H I T E P A P E RS H E E T )

"Tell me what you can't tell me." Even today, a woman is not free to express what she thinks/is/does. Issues

related to motherhood, marriage, the couple or sexuality in particular represent shackles in which a woman

must constrain herself, according to her community, her environment and her entourage. Clémence Vazard

asked women to express a sentence that they must pass over in silence to be accepted by their

communities. However, these statements are inaudible because the participants pronounce them with their

mouths closed with a plaster covered with lipstick.

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TITRE:  #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT (OPHÉLIE, YASMINE, ZSAZSA)2017150 X 100 CMMEDIUM : COLLAGE MANUEL SURPHOTOGRAPHIES NOIR ET BLANC,SCAN HD ET IMPRESSIONS SUR PAPIERMAT  170G

V I S U A L A R T

TITLE: #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT2017COLLAGE ON LARGE SCALE PHOTOGRAPHS, SOUNDSCAPE WITH VOICES

In early 2017, several months before the #metoo revolution, Clmence Vzard gathered the testimonies of women who

answered her only question: "What is your first memory of harassment? ». Offering them the unique opportunity to tell

their story, to be heard, believed and supported, she placed myself as an « enlighten witness" (a method developed by

psychoanalyst Alice Miller in her writings on childhood traumas recovering process). Their portraits, photographed at

the end of the interviews, and their stories are fragmented, echoing the mechanisms of memory and self-narrative.

Gathered in an immersive visual and sound installation, their faces and voices invite the viewer to become aware of

the consequences of harassment and gender violence. A universal yet intimate issue. 

VUE DE L'EXPOSITION  #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT AU CENTRE PARIS ANIM LA CHAPELLE , PARIS 18- SEPTEMBRE 2017

VIEW OF THE VISUAL AND SOUND INSTALLATION "#MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT IN PARIS 2017

VUE DE L'EXPOSITION  #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT À L'HÔTEL DE VILLE D'AVIGNON, NOVEMBRE 2018VIEW OF THE VISUAL AND SOUND INSTALLATION "#MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT IN AVIGNON CITY HALL 2018

VUE DE L'EXPOSITION  #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT À FGO BARBARA, PARIS 18 - MARS 2018VIEW OF THE VISUAL AND SOUND INSTALLATION "#MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT IN PARIS 2018

PERFORMANCE WITH ADELAIDE DAMOAH #MYFIRSTHARASSMENT / MAKESPACE: HOPE FOR TOMORROW INLONDON 2019

TITLE:  #MONPREMIERHARCELEMENT2017MEDIUM : AUDIO (WOMEN VOICES)

O E U V R E S S O N O R E S

TITLE:   HEY SIRI, WHY DON'T I LOOK LIKE THAT GIRL ONINSTAGRAM?

2019MEDIUM : AUDIO (SIRI WOMEN VOICES)

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S O U N D A R T

Clémence Vazardcurriculum vitae

Education

Solo Exhibitions

2 0 1 8 - 2 0 1 9 / A t e l i e r s d e s B e a u x - A r t s d e P a r i s" E x p e r i m e n t a l c i n e m a " w i t h Y a n n G u i l l e m a i n" L a r g e S c a l e D r a w i n g " w i t h S a r a h N a v a s s e - M i l l e r" D r a w i n g a s a t o o l " w i t h M a r i n e P a g è s 2 0 0 8 - 2 0 1 0 | | M a s t e r ’ s d e g r e e w i t h a M a j o r i n “ A r t s a n dC u l t u r e ” a n d a M i n o r i n “ A r t s i n P u b l i c S p a c e ” , S o r b o n n eU n i v e r s i t y , P a r i s

2019 - 06 / Louie Media / PARISSois Belle et Tais Toi 2018 - 11 / City Hall / AVIGNON#monpremierharcelement 2018 - 06 / Balades Sonores / PARISEtudes topographiques 2018 - 03 / FGO-Barbara / PARIS#monpremierharcelement 2017 - 09 / Centre Paris Anim La Chapelle / PARIS#monpremierharcelement 2016 - 07 / La Machine du Moulin Rouge / PARISCOCO 2014 - 07 / Espace Demory Paris / PARISCOLLAGES

Group Shows Press Review2019-04 | | ,   P lexus  Pro ject /  NEW YORKSo i s  Be l le  e t   Ta i s -To i 2019-03 | | Make Space  :  Hope For  Tomorrow / LONDON#myf i r s tha rassment 2019 - 0 1 / M&C Saatchi / LONDRESHey S i r i , why don ' t I l ook l i ke that g i r l on i n s tagram? Group show fo r V i sua l D ie t Campaign 2018- 1 1 / Galer ie D iese22 / PARISEtudes topograph iques Exh ib i t ion  o f META co l lec t i ve , co- funded w i th 12 a r t i s t s 2018- 10 / FGO Barbara / PARISI n f i n imentPer fo rmance of META co l lec t i ve fo r "Nu i t B lanche" event 2018-03 / Pav i l lon des Canaux / PARISFemmes i l l um inées 2016 - 06 / Gal lery 2 1 / PARIS F rance : l e jou r e t la nu i tChar i t y show fo r re fugees 2016 - 05 / Sergeant Paper Gal lery / PARIS Col lagesCurat ion by La Se inographe 2016 - 0 1 / BRUXELLESCol lagesCurat ion by par Fo reseen S tud io 2015 - 05 / Chromat ic Fest iva l #6 / MONTRÉAL É lévat ionCurat ion by Mass i vA r t 2014 - 12 / Centra l Features Gal lery /ALBUQUERQUE Car te B lancheCurat ion by Nancy Zas tud i l 2014 - 1 1 / Pass ion For F reedom Art Fest iva l / LONDRESCurat ion by Agn ieszka Ko lek e t Katka Kowa l ska

2019 | | I n te r v iew about #myf i r s tha rassment exh ib i t ion i n A r tCr i t ique and Cupo Magaz ine .| | A r t ic les about «Hey S i r i , Why don ’ t I l ook l i ke thatg i r l on I n s tagram» a t V i sua l D ie t exh ib i t ion i n A r t s andCo l lec t ions , L i t t le B lack Book , Hunger . 2018 | | I n te r v iew about #monpremie rharce lement exh ib i t ionin Av ignon on V i rg in Rad io and RFM Rad io| | I n te r v iews and a r t ic le about#monpremie rharce lement exh ib i t ionin Av ignon in M id i L ib re , La P rovence , Le Dauph inéL ibéré , Vauc luse Mat in , Av ignon( s ) Mag.| | I n te r v iews in Cheek Magaz ine and LesIn rockupt ib les| | Co lumn in A Nous Par i s , A r t i c le by Cami l le D iao onRad io Nova , F rance . 2017| | I n te r v iew about #monpremie rharce lement i n LesCarnets de La Créat ion on F rance Cu l tu re pub l ic Rad io, F rance| | I n te r v iew and photo repor t by Passe rbuysm, NewYork| | I n te r v iew about #monpremie rharce lement onf rance in fo . t v , F rance 2016 | | I n te r v iew and photo repor t i n Pa r i s -Shanga i -Fash ionb log , Shanga i| | I n te r v iew in 20minutes . f r , Pa r i s 20 15 | | A r t i c le andar t c r i t i c i n Apogée Jou rna l #6 , New York 2014 | | A r t i c le and a r t show rev iew in K ib l i nd #5 1 , Pa r i s -L yon - Bo rdeaux