Clementine Bruno

Clémentine Bruno (b. 1994, Paris) lives and works in London. She received her MFA in Painting at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019 and BA in History of Art and Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2017. 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. Her recent solo and dual exhibition includes: TOTAL, Paris Internationale (Paris, 2022). Recent group exhibitions include: 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 Had Forgotten You, Fluxus Art Projects at Nicoletti (London, 2022). ...

Tabula Rasa Gallery is based in Beijing's 798 art district. Established in 2015, it aims to promote both Chinese and international contemporary artists through exhibitions, talks, research and publication. The gallery name is Latin for 'blank state'. In philosophical discourse, it refers to the idea that our knowledge comes from our experiences and education, all participants are born in a Tabula Rasa state. Tabula Rasa hopes that the exhibitions they present can subvert viewers’ preconceptions, creating conditions for fresh artistic experiments.