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.
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.
