Clarisse Pillard (1997) is a French artist, director, and graphic designer. She studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) and graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR) in 2025. She has presented her work in group exhibitions, at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, at the Galerie Dohyang Lee in Paris, with the Gruppe Motto in Hamburg (Germany), at the Galerie du Lieu in Rennes, and at the Maison Populaire in Montreuil.
In the audiovisual installations, performances, and books I produce, I research how belief systems—economic, political, religious, or personal—shape our emotions and desires. These systems appear to me as power structures based on a continuous production of intertwined expectations and disappointments, where promises and frustrationsfeed off each other.
Based on both theoretical and empirical research,I collect visual and textual fragments: documentary recordings, photographic series, interviews, but also phrases extracted from our media landscapes. Examining the very materialityof images and discourse, I seek to identify the affects provoked by contemporary dogmas in relation to the mechanisms of persuasion and the devices of illusion that make such dogmas effective.
The composition of these heterogeneous fragments involves repetition, subtraction, superimposition, juxtaposition, and displacement. These editing operations produce frictional and deceptive scenarios, where narratives dialogue and contradict each other. There, I explore non-linear documentary and fictional forms with multiple entry points, inviting viewers to experience doubt, confusion, and disillusionment. This sensitive shift opens up a space for reappropriation: by experiencing the fallibility of imposed systems, each viewer is invited to perceive what may remain beyond these systems — a rest of free will, imagination, and resilience, from which we could reconsider our collective perception of reality.
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