Clément Davout

Clément Davout (1993, France), a painter, musician and poet, has been engaging in a dialogue with the living world in his practice for many years.
After graduating from the École Supérieure d'Arts et Medias in Caen/Cherbourg in 2017, he pursued his professional development through residencies in France and abroad. His work has been supported by numerous institutions and he has collaborated with galleries in France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

The music he studied in his childhood allows him today to create sound installations and immersive projects inspired by the concept of “audible geography”. Like his textual and pictorial work, this is a way to create sensations, to provoke the imagination by questioning what constitutes a landscape in our time.
Each medium is a language that the artist activates according to the project, inviting us to pay attention to the world, to its joys, and bearing witness to the relationships and dialogues among the living beings of which we are a part.

Having grown up in the landscape, Clément Davout subsequently studied the history of painting during his education -this balance allows him to construct works in which several pictorial and temporal spaces overlap and convey a “multi-sensory perception of the landscape."
Whether through sight or sound, the viewer is plunged into a meditative state.
As subjects tend to disappear, to dissolve into the air, colour floods the support to attract attention and arouse curiosity.