Claire Duplouy was born in Saint-Céré in 1992. She lives and works in Paris.
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Through her paintings, Claire Duplouy writes her dreams and dreamlike memories.
Between a desire to create a parallel universe and that of reconstructing a memory, Claire Duplouy’s watercolors bear witness to a passage, a trace using the material of the paper and its reliefs.
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Among some paintings, the spontaneous brush movement marks a sensation, an emotion, often underlined by a thin, black line which unmasks animal and plant forms seen on paper.
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Others will be more figurative, well-defined islands where the wind blows, huge mountains where one gets lost; distinct memories and a refuge for memory.