Clémence DE LA TOUR DU PIN
Sunshades for an expanded field, 2022
Umbrella, button
50 x 50 x 21 cm
(19 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 8 1/4 in)
DE LA TOUR DU PIN, known for her use of found objects—such as vintage umbrellas, which she collects near her hometown of Roanne, France—demonstrates a practiced attunement to the pathos of the discarded. She lightly manipulates her materials—cutting, collaging, arranging, and conjoining them—to produce quiet, temporally elusive objects that simultaneously evoke and foreclose the possibility of historical knowledge.
~ Jenny Wu
Clémence de La Tour du Pin
Sunshades for an expanded field, 2022
Umbrella, button
50 x 50 x 21 cm
(19 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 8 1/4 in)
Clémence DE LA TOUR DU PIN (b.1986, Roanne) lives and works between Paris and Amsterdam. She studied at the School of Art, Architecture & Design in London and the Van der Kelen-Logelain Institute in Brussels, and she is a former participant of De Ateliers, Amsterdam. Recent solo- and duo exhibitions include T-Rex, Derosia, New York (2024); Parallel Manipulation, with Ingrid B. Olson, Wschód, Warsaw (2023): Topological-Ease, Tonus, Paris (2023); In shade, Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); and Windings, Femtensesse, Oslo (2021). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Sentiment, Zurich (2024); Femtensesse, Oslo (2024); Office Baroque, Antwerp (2024); Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2024); Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (2024); Capc – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (2023); Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2023); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2023); Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue Delme, Delme (2019); and Musée d’Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris, Paris (2015). Her work is included in the collection of the Capc – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and is part of the museum’s current group exhibition Amour Systémique, on view until January 2025.
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