Jugnet + Clairet

  • Overview
    Jugnet + Clairet
    Working in multiple media, French born Anne Marie Jugnet and Alain Clairet direct their attention to the fringes of the image where information is scarce and often unnoticed, focusing on subjects as varied as the desert and television static noise. Since becoming an artist collective in 1997, they have elaborated a unique conceptual approach, that functions according to a specific protocol and continuously reinvented process. 

    "Our work, beyond an autobiographical dimension, explores and develops what usually escapes attention in the surrounding world. Everything that imposes itself by a sudden emergence, a strangeness, a dazzlement - everything that requests a steady gaze. Our point of view is peripheral, we are attracted by the margins, the backgrounds, the depths.” - Jugnet + Clairet

    Jugnet + Clairet live near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where their experience of the American Southwest inspires and informs their work. They have been the subjects of exhibitions at prestigious institutions across Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Pompidou Center, institutions which also have the artists’ works in their collections.
  • Exhibitions
  • Promontorium Somnii Series
    Promontorium Somnii
    Jugnet + Clairet, Promontorium Somnii Series
    Promontorium Somnii

    One evening in the summer of 1834, Victor Hugo went to the Paris observatory where Arago (1) gave him the opportunity to observe the surface of the moon through a telescope with high magnification for the time (X 400). Nine years later, Hugo was to report this experience in a text entitled Le Promontoire du songe, referring to a volcano known to astronomers as the Promotorium Somnii.

     

    (1) François Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist, and statesman, director of the Paris Observatory from 1834 to 1853.

     
  • Works