Clément Davout
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Clément Davout

Belgium • 1993

Biography

Flers (FR), Lives and works in Brussels

Graduated from the Caen art and media school.


Clément Davout's oil paintings with a monochromatic tendency take flora as their favorite subject. Recomposed from photographs, the images have this somewhat retro and instantaneous patina of the Polaroid, the name of a material polarizing the light which passes through it before being a brand. This work on the image generates a magnetic and padded environment. The biotope of the plants is deafened by an impression of superimposed films.


In other words, the vegetation is always observed through the prism of a veil, a window, a mist ... Therefore, the branches, more or less erased, are imprinted with a condensed melancholy. in too heavy a weather, too strong an emotion, too intense a scene.

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When was Clément Davout born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1993