Clément Borderie : le laisser-faire

Clément Borderie (1960-) creates installations that resemble sculpture and painting. He seeks to capture the essence of a place, create its spatio-temporal identity, and reveal the imperceptible, those details that usually escape us. In nature, he installs metal structures of various shapes and sizes, over which he stretches canvases, then leaves the canvases to react with the elements.

This monograph is divided into three parts that trace the artist's lines of research in no particular chronological order. The first chapter, Deposition, opens with the research conducted by Clément Borderie since the 1990s to define the exchanges between a form and its environment over time, to make visible the invisible elements that meet there.

The process of impregnation described in the second chapter defines the practice of installing cotton canvases on pre-existing forms in the environment, which then become matrices.

The artist then initiates an action of appropriation of these manifestations, developed in the third chapter. It is during his wanderings that the artist notices objects and materials that he appropriates and designates as works, but also during exchanges with people receptive to his approach (craftsmen, shopkeepers, farmers, etc.) who voluntarily also take pieces in complicity with his choices.