Born in 1991 in Cosne sur Loire (France), based in Bourgogne (France).
The context of hyper-industrialization of techniques, materials, and objects not only impacts the natural environment and our everyday lives, but also transforms and weakens the social fabric.
Based on these observations, Clara Denidet searches for ways to care for individuals and groups in artisanal and social practices, whether ancient, isolated, or marginal.
Through field research, encounters, and exchanges, she weaves links between storytelling, apprenticeship, and curative tinkering. Using her hands, tools, and techniques, she offers tangible ways to act and work together.
Paying attention to pre-capitalist customs and practices could offer us ways to navigate through a present in crisis. Through collaborative work involving the weaving of words, visible mending, and traveling workshops offering small street crafts with a restorative purpose, she navigates the interdependence between production, consumption, and recovery, use and wear.
Her collective performance practices, installation work, metalwork, weaving, writing, and creation of objects with symbolic meaning allow her to develop a unique perspective and interpretation of different modes of existence and work beyond capitalism. Clara Denidet places herself in these gray areas, where the hand that creates bewitches itself with its protective charms and talismans that gently silence the disorder of the surrounding world.
Written by Andrea Malapert.
As part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, Artistes en résidence and Silo - Arte e latitude rural are joining forces to welcome visual artists Clara Denidet (FR) and Andréa Hygino (BR). While Andréa Hygino's work questions the place of individuals in normative educational systems, notably marked by colonialism and classism, Clara Denidet explores the transmission of gestures and know-how as tools for shared commons. During an initial residency in Serrinha do Alambari (Brazil) in the fall of 2025, followed by a second residency in Clermont-Ferrand (France) in the spring of 2026, the two artists will be able to immerse themselves in contrasting geographical, ecological, sociological, and economic realities. These periods of experimentation, research, and exchange will provide an opportunity to grasp the sensitive and conceptual issues involved in the interactions between the communities that inhabit the urban fabric and the protected rural areas of each country, from the Puy-de-Dôme volcanic chain to the Mantiqueira mountains.
This residency is part of the France-Brazil Season 2025 and is supported by the City of Clermont-Ferrand, the Ministry of Culture / DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Trampoline. The participation of Clara Denidet is enabled by Trampoline, association in support of the French art scene, Paris
The Season is organized and implemented by the Institut français with the support of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy in Brazil, and the French Commissariat headed by Ms. Anne Louyot.