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Clémentine Bruno

Clémentine Bruno’s complex praxis can be condensed into a study of painting’s presets and indexicals, working through its genres and repetitions as a means of questioning the painter as singular genius. If we liken the writer to the painter, as Bruno posits in her work, words as much as images are infinitely interchangeable to produce different narratives and visual compositions. 

Project Native Informant has held two solo exhibitions of Bruno’s work, Ironclad Contract, 2020 and Then We Are Both Satisfied, 2020, each exhibition held works as groupings that are suggestive of the form and grammar of language, Bruno draws attention to the constraints of painting to derive meaning in a linear sense. Throughout her practice, she mines the art historical canon, making use of both identifiable as well as obscure references, each work could be compared to a word that when seen together read as a disjointed narrative. 

In 2021, she presented a solo booth, 10 to 16 at Frieze Art London, in 2022 and 2023 she has taken part in group exhibitions in various galleries including Fluxus Art Project at Nicoletti, London, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, Halle Nord, Geneva and Project Native Informant, London. Recently, One Gee in Fog, Geneva presented a solo show of Bruno’s works and TONUS, Paris opened a new solo show in September 2024. 

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Group Exhibitions
2024Rapture, Balice Hertling, Paris
White Sands ATS-3, Baleno InternationaI, Rome
2023Untalely, Tabula Rasa, Beijing
PNI @ 10, Project Native Informant, London
One Kiss is All It Takes, Halle Nord, Geneva
2022The Sky Above, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing
Not Before It Had Forgotten You, Fluxus Art Projects at Nicoletti, London
2021For Some Bags Under The Eyes, Sans Titre (2016), Paris
Oceans of Milk, APSARA Studio, London
Bambi Woods Presents, ERGO, Athens
2020Project Native Informant at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
2019Gubbinal, Project Native Informant, London
Flick Ratio: Degenerative Origins Between the Third Possibility, Space 52, Athens
Where Do Limos Sleep At Night, Slade School of Art, London
2018I reply; by want him to know (that) I wai him to know; to know; they saw it in a dream, Studio 59, London
Léopoldine, Sans Titre (2016), Paris
Plotting The Thinginess of The Thing, Slade Research Centre, London
A Play On The Thinginess Of The Thing, Café Hammer, Basel
The Field, ASC Gallery, London
2017DUST, Blasé, London
2016Symbiosis, Goldsmiths: St James Hatcham, London
Awards
2019Neon Contemporary Art Exhibitions
Public Collections
Fonds Cantonal d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

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Clémentine Bruno
CITYBOX
One Gee in Fog, Geneva

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Clémentine Bruno
CITYBOX
One Gee in Fog, Geneva

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Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL, 2022
Paris Internationale, Paris

Clémentine Bruno

TOTAL III

2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
30 x 50 x 3.5 cm
11 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/8 in

Clémentine Bruno

TOTAL IV

2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
37.5 x 120 x 3.5 cm
14 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 3/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL, 2022
Paris Internationale, Paris

Clémentine Bruno

TOTAL VII

2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
130 x 88 x 5 cm
51 1/8 x 34 5/8 x 2 in

Clémentine Bruno

Detail: TOTAL VII

2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
130 x 88 x 5 cm
51 1/8 x 34 5/8 x 2 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Ironclad Contract, 2020
Project Native Informant, London

Clémentine Bruno

A song is a song, dig it or you don’t

2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
40.5 x 30.5 x 3 cm
16 x 12 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

Clémentine Bruno

Ironclad-contract - A song is a song, dig it, or you don't

2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
35.5 x 25 x 3 cm
14 x 9 7/8 x 1 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Ironclad Contract, 2020
Project Native Informant, London

Clémentine Bruno

Storage for apparition

2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
26 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm
10 1/4 x 7 5/8 x 1 in

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Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16, 2022
Frieze London, London

Clémentine Bruno

10 to 16

2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
152 x 92 x 5.5 cm
59 7/8 x 36 1/4 x 2 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16, 2022
Frieze London, London

Clémentine Bruno

10 to 16

2021
Oil, aluminium, paper and traditional gesso on wood
37 x 65.5 x 4 cm
14 5/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 5/8 in

Clémentine Bruno

10 to 16

2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15.5 x 3 cm
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Then we are both Satisfied, 2020
Project Native Informant, Soho Offsite, London

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Clémentine Bruno
Then we are both Satisfied, 2020
Project Native Informant, Soho Offsite, London

Clémentine Bruno

May I offer you a drink, may we never; apart II

2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
9 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 1 in

Clémentine Bruno

Storage for apparition

2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 in

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Adam Gordon & Clémentine Bruno, 2021
Chapter NY, New York

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Adam Gordon & Clémentine Bruno, 2021
Chapter NY, New York

Clémentine Bruno

The name

2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
35 x 25 x 2.5 cm
13 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 1 in

Clémentine Bruno

Higher beings commanded II

2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15 x 2 cm
8 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 3/4 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Oceans of Milk, 2021
Aspara Studios, London

Clémentine Bruno

Total XXIII

2023
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20 x 30 x 3 cm
7 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/8 in

Clémentine Bruno

Total XXII

2023
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20 x 30 x 3 cm
7 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
The Sky Above the Roof, 2022
Tabula Rasa, Beijing

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Clémentine Bruno
The Sky Above the Roof, 2022
Tabula Rasa, Beijing

Group Shows

Clémentine Bruno

Not Before It Has Forgotten You

Fluxus Art Projects, London

Clémentine Bruno

Bambi Woods Presents

Space 52 and ERGO Collective, Athens

Adam Gordon, Alan Miller, Andrew Stahl, Clémentine Bruno, ...

Gubbinal, co-curated with Sean Steadman

PNI, London

Clémentine Bruno

One Kiss is All It Takes

Halle Nord, Geneva

Clémentine Bruno, Dozie Kanu

Art Basel Miami Beach 2020

Art Basel, Miami Beach

Anna Jung Seo, DIS, Clémentine Bruno, ...

Frieze LA 2023

Frieze, Los Angeles

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