JULIETTE CLOVIS FRANCE, 1978

Juliette Clovis’s work is an exploration of dualities—life and death, nature and humanity, creation and destruction. Through her intricate sculptures, she examines the cyclical nature of life and the perpetual search for balance born from contrasts and oppositions. Born in 1978, she studied law and art history at L’École du Louvre before transitioning to graphic design at L’École des Gobelins. In 2004, she fully dedicated herself to art, developing a multidisciplinary practice where technical proficiency plays a central role. Her current work focuses primarily on sculpture, with porcelain as her preferred medium. In her latest pieces, she delves into the ambivalence of humanity’s relationship with nature, illustrating the tension between human presence and the progressive destruction of the natural world. Her sculptures depict flora and fauna that seem to adapt, mutate, or reclaim their space, embodying a metaphorical dialogue between survival and surrender. Mixing influences from Baroque aesthetics, her work is rich in symbolic references—snakes, butterflies, chrysanthemum, vanitas, and eggs—all evoking both life and death, transformation and rebirth. Conjugating ambiguity and employing strong metaphors, her creations oscillate between the birth of a new hybrid entity and the looming revenge of a nature reclaiming its rights. Through this interplay of contradictions, Clovis crafts a world where harmony emerges from tension, and beauty is found in the fragility of balance.