CLÉMENT DAVOUT French, 1993
Painter, musician, and poet Clément Davout has been engaging in a dialogue with living things through his work for many years.
After graduating from the Caen/Cherbourg School of Arts and Media in 2017, he continued his professional development through residencies in France and abroad, supported by numerous institutions and collaborating with galleries in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
The music he studied as a child now enables him to create sound installations and immersive projects inspired by the concept of “audible geography.” Like his textual and pictorial work, it is a way of creating sensations and stimulating the imagination by questioning what constitutes landscape in our time. Each medium is a language that the artist activates according to the project, inviting us to pay attention to the world and its joys, bearing witness to the relationships and dialogues between the living beings of which we are a part.
Having grown up surrounded by landscape, Clément Davout went on to study the history of painting during his studies—this balance allows him to construct works in which several pictorial and temporal spaces overlap and convey a “multi-sensory perception of landscape.” Whether through sight or hearing, the viewer is immersed in a meditative state. While the subjects tend to disappear, to blend into the air, color floods the medium to attract attention.