Claire Wastiaux is a multimedia artist working with analog and digital photography, digital illustration, and painting to create recomposed images.
She is recently living and working in Wellington, New Zealand
She participated in the development of the " Night of Ideas 2022" website.
Claire Wastiaux
Fragments: deconstructing to rebuild
Rebuilding means deconstructing first.
Deconstructing one’s identity to better understand it, deconstructing one’s movements to better embody them.
Rebuilding bodies, rebuilding the space they evolve in, exposing aspects too often hidden in the shaded areas. To not let the eye get trapped into a path too smooth, to give it some texture, some grain, some nuances and let it cross worlds.
Deconstructing, fragmenting, cutting up, then rebuilding, assembling, remodeling. Rebuilding means first deconstructing.
My work is a combination of vibrant geometric abstractions obtained by deconstructing an image into multiple basic shapes, later recombined and superimposed on top of an original.
These new and abstract compositions are repositioned into the image to scatter the eye and the sharpness of a realistic image. The fragments are assembled to construct three-dimensional objects, placed in some areas within the image. They slide and merge with the image in other areas. They invite the eye to look differently at the shapes that have become enigmatic with the movement and suggest new combinations.
I take pleasure in cutting up and superimposing basic geometric shapes on top of complex images. Once assembled they rebuild three-dimensional stackable objects. My images are imbibed with colourful and bright fragments or, on the contrary, are dark and mysterious. They settle in their environment in a new and autonomous way.
By filling in ambiguous pictural spaces with superimposed geometric shapes, I remodel the perception of an image by creating a rupture in its composition. My images are both enigmatic and familiar, an unexpected presence that is emerging and is contrasting a moment in reality.
The collection sways between analogue photo montages from the past and digitisation of the present and the future. Images deformed and reformed, deconstructed and rebuilt in as many propositions as potential occurrences, all depending on the facet grabbing the eye and the senses.
Claire WASTIAUX
Claire Wastiaux is a multimedia artist working analog and digital photography, digital illustration and painting to create recomposed images. www.clairewastiaux.net
She is recently living and working in Wellington, New-Zealand.
She participated in the development of the " Night of Ideas 2022" website.
Night of Ideas New Zealand is presented by the Embassy of France in New Zealand in partnership with Victoria University of Wellington, as part of La Nuit des idées, a worldwide initiative of the Institut français, Paris.
Participation of New Caledonian contributors is facilitated by the Delegation of New Caledonia to New Zealand.
