Biography
Clémence Grieco was born in Montréal, Canada in 1982. She completed a Bachelors in Visual and Mediatique Arts in 2008 at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. In fall of 2006, she also studied at École des Beaux Arts de Luminy, France. She has special training as a ceramist and a seamstress and was in 2010 assistant for the Canadian sculptor Stephen Schofield.
Since April 2011, she is part of the artist collective Portable Isolation Unit accompanied by Wesley Goatley (UK), Anna Hughes (UK) and R. M. Phoenix (UK). Clémence Grieco has exhibited in more than a dozen group exhibitions, some of which she also coordinated.
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Physical Properties of Materials.
Put heavy on soft.
Bend the inflexible.
I manipulate the materials in search of what they contain. When I am working in my studio, it becomes warm and I begin to sweat. Sometimes, everything collapses and it makes a huge roar. I provoke encounters between different materials. I install them in precarious positions. The continuous tension, pressure & compression simultaneously, between the materials, coalesces into a balance.
It’s immobile but it’s forcing.
Contemplating the physical nature of materials, intuitively feeling the continuous strain of them, their physical fulcrum and their way to respond to the gravitational attraction.
Clémence Grieco
