Clémence Devienne questions what painting can still achieve today: not capturing an appearance, but making visible an intense emotional state, scattered thoughts, a struggle. Through her painting, she explores the extreme emotional intensities that often shape multiple identities. Her painting is haunted by the theme of madness and its representation. On these canvases, her artistic gesture is lively, impulsive, vibrant, and the brushstrokes are often raw. She has a direct relationship with the material.

 

 

Without preparatory drawings, the brushstrokes are reworked directly into the color. The faces she paints carry within them this tension between strength and fragility, between apparent coherence and inner cracks. Her painting thus oscillates between figuration and expressionism, seeking less to represent faithfully than to convey the emotional instability that runs through us. Saturated colors, violent flat areas, intense gazes: everything in her composition evokes an excess of sensitivity.