Claire Ducène (°1986, La Louvière)
Visual artist based in Brussels.
Trained in visual and spatial arts, specialising in painting, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Free University of Brussels in Romance languages and literature.
She has been developing a practice that combines personal archives, collective memory and visual fiction for many years Her works take the form of installations (archives, videos photographs, engravings, texts, drawings) and collaborative projects.
DOCUMENTS
︎Full Bio
FRENCH here
ENGLISH here
︎ Full CV
here
︎Full Portfolio
FRENCH here
ENGLISH here
“I grew up in La Louvière, a town marked by deindustrialisation and the visible traces of its decline. The urban environment – wastelands, ruins, damaged landscapes – shaped my perception of the world as a fragile, unstable space, constantly changing. Living in this context developed in me a particular sensitivity to the past, to what disappears or falls apart. The ruins were not just a backdrop: they structured an intimate experience of everyday life and collective memory.
This early experience has nourished my artistic work around a form of anxiety, how to retain or bear witness to what is fading away, how to bring into existence what is threatened with oblivion.
In my work, this influence is reflected in the use of fragments, discontinuous elements, attention to fragile details and minimal gestures, and the emphasis on slow temporalities, traces and partial memories. My work does not seek to reconstruct what has been lost, but rather to give space to fragility as a universal experience. Having spent my childhood in a territory marked by ruin, I am led to explore, through art, the way in which places, objects and images still carry the memory of what has disappeared.”
Visual artist based in Brussels.
Trained in visual and spatial arts, specialising in painting, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Free University of Brussels in Romance languages and literature.
She has been developing a practice that combines personal archives, collective memory and visual fiction for many years Her works take the form of installations (archives, videos photographs, engravings, texts, drawings) and collaborative projects.
DOCUMENTS
︎Full Bio
FRENCH here
ENGLISH here
︎ Full CV
here
︎Full Portfolio
FRENCH here
ENGLISH here
“I grew up in La Louvière, a town marked by deindustrialisation and the visible traces of its decline. The urban environment – wastelands, ruins, damaged landscapes – shaped my perception of the world as a fragile, unstable space, constantly changing. Living in this context developed in me a particular sensitivity to the past, to what disappears or falls apart. The ruins were not just a backdrop: they structured an intimate experience of everyday life and collective memory.
This early experience has nourished my artistic work around a form of anxiety, how to retain or bear witness to what is fading away, how to bring into existence what is threatened with oblivion.
In my work, this influence is reflected in the use of fragments, discontinuous elements, attention to fragile details and minimal gestures, and the emphasis on slow temporalities, traces and partial memories. My work does not seek to reconstruct what has been lost, but rather to give space to fragility as a universal experience. Having spent my childhood in a territory marked by ruin, I am led to explore, through art, the way in which places, objects and images still carry the memory of what has disappeared.”
Artistic director of the Fictive Archive Investigations collective
︎https://thinktankfictivearchives.wordpress.com/
Co-founder of the Endless House collective with visual artist Nicolas Riquette
︎https://cargocollective.com/endlesshousecollective
Co-founder of the Ghostwriters’ duo with sound artist Christophe Bailleau Project House 27
︎http://transcultures.be/2023/09/11/house27-ghostwriters/
"Bruxelles Invisible", a long-term collaboration with BNA-BBOT
Workshops at IRSA & La Ligue Braille about visual impairment and wandering through the town of Brussels
︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Bruxelles Invisible” (FR)
"Ressouvenirs" is a serie of recorded testimonials from people with Alzheimer's disease, elderly people, and care home workers in France.
︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Ressouvenirs” (FR)
Co-founder of the Endless House collective with visual artist Nicolas Riquette
︎https://cargocollective.com/endlesshousecollective
Co-founder of the Ghostwriters’ duo with sound artist Christophe Bailleau Project House 27
︎http://transcultures.be/2023/09/11/house27-ghostwriters/
"Bruxelles Invisible", a long-term collaboration with BNA-BBOT
Workshops at IRSA & La Ligue Braille about visual impairment and wandering through the town of Brussels
︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Bruxelles Invisible” (FR)
"Ressouvenirs" is a serie of recorded testimonials from people with Alzheimer's disease, elderly people, and care home workers in France.
︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Ressouvenirs” (FR)
Artist STATEMENT
Claire Ducène explores the ‘poetics of fragility’ through her work on memory, personal and collective archives, forgotten stories, erased traces and the remnants of everyday life.
Through her installations and collaborations, she develops a visual language in which delicacy is a critical force.
Her practice highlights what is often relegated to silence: unstable fragments, fragile voices, threatened memories. This is not a fragility of weakness, but a creative fragility that questions our relationship to the world, to history and to ourselves.
The aesthetics of fragility is not a search for weakness, but a way of making the instability that is part of all existence perceptible. It manifests itself through precise artistic choices that give form to what would otherwise remain intangible: memory, the passage of time, vulnerability.
Materials play a central role: paper, fragile writing, ink and pencil, or even found objects, carry with them a sense of precariousness: they wear out, become marked, tear.
Their physical instability becomes a metaphor for human fragility and memory, which is always threatened with erasure. Similarly, transparent or translucent materials—glass, tracing paper, veil—embody an uncertain visibility, oscillating between revelation and withdrawal. Forms emerge as fragments, delicate accumulations, or open compositions.
The unfinished and the sketch affirm that fragility is not a defect to be repaired, but a state to be contemplated: a truth that is expressed in the in-between, in assumed incompleteness.
The gestures that structure the artistic practice accentuate this fragility. Erasing, scratching, superimposing, repeating: these are all acts in which disappearance is part of the process. The gesture is restrained, often minimal, and implies the idea of an almost meditative attention. It inscribes in the material a tension between what remains and what fades away.
Space is envisaged as an extension of this fragility. Suspended installations, airy structures and intimate formats invite proximity with the viewer. The latter is no longer one of care and attention, as if it were meant to protect what it contemplates.
Finally, temporality is a fundamental theme. Fragile works are ephemeral: they evolve, deteriorate and transform. They exist as traces, imprints or vestiges. The experience they offer unfolds at a slow, silent pace, inviting attentive perception of the passage of time.
Thus, the aesthetics of fragility reveal an artistic stance that values what disappears, what cracks, what barely holds together. It transforms vulnerability into poetic strength and invites the viewer to confront not the imposing or the monumental, but the invisible persistence of what still trembles.
Memory is seen as ‘unstable’ and a form of anxiety manifests itself first through an acute awareness of the fragility of memory: images, stories and traces are never fixed, as they appear, blur and fade away. This instability opens up a space where the viewer is confronted with the possibility of loss.
Each trace seems temporary, threatened, as if it could dissolve before our eyes. This fragile aesthetic is no accident, but the heart of visual language: the work itself becomes the site of unease, that of an ever-insufficient imprint.
This unease is fuelled by personal and collective narratives. By combining elements linked to his own history (mourning, absence, loss) with broader cultural references (historical memory, lost heritage), she seeks to create an ambiguous space. The viewer perceives a constant oscillation: between the intimate and the universal, between experience and archive, between testimony and fiction. This tension produces an existential anxiety that runs through the entire work.
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ABOUT CLAIRE DUCENE
2025 – Selection of Solo Exhibitions
2025 – «Ressouvenirs», Bénévent-l’Abbaye (FR)
2022 – «Ce blanc du ciel qui fait disparaître les montagnes...», THANKSgalerie, Mons (BE)
2020 – Les Archives Imaginaires de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)
2020 – «La Collection Invisible», TRE-A galerie, Mons
2019 – Memorias del Bruc, Biblioteca Verge de Montserrat , El Bruc, Barcelona
2018 – 2019 – Imaginary Museum, The Mini Davis Lisboa Museum, Barcelona
2018 – Croisière au cercle polaire. Été 1929, La Maison Losseau, Mons
2017 – Paysage intérieur, La Maison Culturelle d’Ath/Le Palace, Ath
2016 – Mundos paralelos, Mercado de la Merced, Rota, Spain
2016 – Double Room, ISELP, Brussels
Curating
2025 – Second edition of Fictive Archive Investigations / Two Suns & Two Moons, Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MT)
2025 – Dissolve & Dissolve, QUATUOR+1 avec Rémy Hans et Muesli Collective (Louis Darcel, Hannah De Corte, Joao Freitas), Curatrices: Claire Ducène & sabine sil (Sabine Jeanne Sil), POELP, Brussels (BE)
2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
Selection of Collective Exhibitions
2025 – Pulsations. Visages d’une Cité, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons (BE)
2024 – WOMENWAVRE, La Plateforme Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Wavre (BE)
2023 – Endless House Collective X_Out of the Walls, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, Uccle (BE)
2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
2021 – Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS., La Louvière (BE)
2021 – Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie, Abattoir de Bomel, Namur (BE)
2021 – Der Rattenfänger, Galerie Duflon/Racz (BE)
2020 – Prix Artistique de la ville de Tournai 2020 (BE)
2020 – Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles», Campus du Sart Tilman, Liège (BE)
2020 – Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation, Museum Palau Solterra de Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia (ES)
2019 – Endless House VIII_three ways, Babel visningsrom for kunst,Trondheim, Norway
2019 – Endless House VII_Unreal houses, La Maison Pelgrims, Brussels
2019 – Shifting foundations, Hectolitre, Brussels
2018 – +5, Espacio Pinea, Cadix, Spain
2018 – 27ème Edition du Prix de la Gravure - Edition spéciale / Post-imprimé, Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière
2018 – Tuinfeest 2018, Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Flex Xl Flanders Expo Gent
2018 – ORL+, Rog Galerija Zelenica, Slovenia
2018 – Filtr x EP7 - Observez bien ce que fait le maçon, EP7, Paris (FR)
2018 – Nuances d’Acier. Création et réalité industrielle, Musée Ianchelevici de La Louvière - MILL (BE)
2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)
2017 – Off Course Young Contemporary Art Fair, Palais de la Dynastie, Mont des Arts, Brussels (BE)
2016 – Radieuse, cur. by Emmanuel Lambion and Frédéric de Goldschmidt, 7, quai du Commerce, 1000 Brussels (BE)
2016 – Master Salon 2016, Vanderborght building, Brussels (BE)
2016 – KoMASK 2016 Master Salon, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2016 – The Bloom Experiment!, installation created with Nicolas Riquette by the Endless Room Collective, The Bloom Hostel!, Brussels (BE)
2016 – Video project At poet Verhaeren’s home, Exhibition Les Gestes Bleus, La Maison Losseau, Mons (BE)
2016 – Endless House II, a collective project by Claire Ducène, Nik O’La and Emilie Terlinden, The Moonens Foundation, Brussels (BE)
2016 – International Collective Exhibition Cachet de la poste faisant foi, Fondation Hippocrène / Villa Mallet-Stevens, Paris (FR)
2015 – International Exhibition, the Art Le Logge - Piazza del Comune, Assisi (IT)
2015 – Exhibition of the artists selected for the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Prize, Photography,W:Hall, Brussels (BE)
2015 – Paul Hamesse Prize, Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
2015 – Hainaut Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Charleroi (BE)
2014 – Images, Installation, collective exhibition “Taille Unique”, Collectif Contrefaçon, Galerie du 48, Rennes (FR)
Illustrations & literary, sound, photographic collection
2023 – House27 by GHOSTWRITERS, photographic and audio collection, 2023, published by Transcultures with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
2022 – Histoires allonymes, short story included in the collection Ghostwriter Library, produced and published in limited edition by Stéphanie Roland, Blue Marble exhibition, ISELP (BE)
2021 – Maisons d’écriture, illustrations for texts by Christine Van Acker, Eric Piette and Axel Cornil, La Maison Losseau Editions
2018 – Les nombreuses étendues ouvertes de la mer. Journal d’un voyage au cercle polaire arctique.
Texts by Françoise Delmez and illustrations (engravings/photographs) by Claire Ducène, Les Editions Traverse
Festivals
2025 – TraverSons Bruxelles - Installation & group listening session of ‘Invisible Brussels’
2025 – «Stream of Consciousness», a video & sound mapping in collaboration with Christophe Bailleau, Mons en lumières, Sound and Light Festival, Mons (BE)
Awards & Grants
2024 – Lecture-screening of dreamlike archives from House27, Le Vecteur, Charleroi (BE)
2021 – House27, Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS, Théâtre Le Central, La Louvière (BE)
2024 - Arts Support Scheme, Arts Council Mal ta («Two Moons & Two Suns» by Fictive Archive Investigations
2024/2023/2022/2021 Grant for Creation & Artistic Residency - Wallonie Bruxelles International / WBI
2022 - Grant for Publishing - FWB («House27» by GHOSTWRITERS.)
2022 Grant for Culture, la commune d’Uccle (Laureate)
2021- Selected to the Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie
2020 - Grant for artists working in Hainaut (Laureate with the collective GHOSTWRITERS.)
2020 - Selected to the Prix de la ville de Tournai 2020
2020 - Selected to the Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
2020 - Selected to the Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation 2020, Catalonia (ES)
2016 - Ifa Gallery Prize (Special Mention)
2015 - Hainaut Prize of Arts (Laureate)
2015 - Selected to the Godecharle Prize, Painting (shortlisted)
2015 - Selected to the Paul Hamesse Prize
2015 - Selected to the Art Prize of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
2015 - Selected to the Komask Master Salon Painting
Residencies
2024 – Villa Psaigon, Dingli (MT)
2023/2024 – La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)
2022 – La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona (ES)
2022 – Fictive Archive Investigations, La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)
2022 – Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (IS)
2020 – Résidence d’artiste Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)
2019-2020 – Hectolitre, Brussels (BE)
2019 – Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim (NO)
2019 – ACUR residency, The Arxiu Comarcal de l’Urgell, Barcelona (ES)
2019 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator & resident) (ES)
2018 – ORL+, Ljubljana (SLO)
2018 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator & resident) (ES)
2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)
2017 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (ES)
2016 – Pinea-Linea de Costa, Rota (ES)
2016 – Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, (FI)
2015 – Ferme du Laid Burniat, Godecharle Prize (BE)
2015 – Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi (IT)
2015 – Palazzo Rinaldi, Basilicata (IT)
Teaching
2024, 2025 – «Archive and Fiction» & «Text’s Gene rator», Literary workshops at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA
2021 & 2022 – Literary workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai
2017, 2019 – Lecturer, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA
2018 – Literary workshop at the Institut Saint-Luc - Ecole Supérieur des Arts, Brussels
Since 2015 and ongoing - Head of Les Ateliers de la Mémoire
2008-2021 – French & Literature Teacher, IEPSCF, Uccle
Conferences & Masterclass
2025 – Symposium «Fiction(s) in Archive», Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MA)
2024 – «L’Archive-fiction», BNA-BBOT, Brussels
2023 – Poétique de l’archive fictive, ISELP, Brussels
2023 – L’archive fiction au coeur des institutions, ISELP, Brussels
Academic Background
2011-2016 – Master’s degree in Visual Arts, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2010-2016 – Degree in Photography, Académie de dessin et des Arts visuels de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
2006-2008 – Master’s degree in Cultural Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2003-2007 – Master’s degree in French and Romanic Languages and Literatures, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Claire Ducène explores the ‘poetics of fragility’ through her work on memory, personal and collective archives, forgotten stories, erased traces and the remnants of everyday life.
Through her installations and collaborations, she develops a visual language in which delicacy is a critical force.
Her practice highlights what is often relegated to silence: unstable fragments, fragile voices, threatened memories. This is not a fragility of weakness, but a creative fragility that questions our relationship to the world, to history and to ourselves.
The aesthetics of fragility is not a search for weakness, but a way of making the instability that is part of all existence perceptible. It manifests itself through precise artistic choices that give form to what would otherwise remain intangible: memory, the passage of time, vulnerability.
Materials play a central role: paper, fragile writing, ink and pencil, or even found objects, carry with them a sense of precariousness: they wear out, become marked, tear.
Their physical instability becomes a metaphor for human fragility and memory, which is always threatened with erasure. Similarly, transparent or translucent materials—glass, tracing paper, veil—embody an uncertain visibility, oscillating between revelation and withdrawal. Forms emerge as fragments, delicate accumulations, or open compositions.
The unfinished and the sketch affirm that fragility is not a defect to be repaired, but a state to be contemplated: a truth that is expressed in the in-between, in assumed incompleteness.
The gestures that structure the artistic practice accentuate this fragility. Erasing, scratching, superimposing, repeating: these are all acts in which disappearance is part of the process. The gesture is restrained, often minimal, and implies the idea of an almost meditative attention. It inscribes in the material a tension between what remains and what fades away.
Space is envisaged as an extension of this fragility. Suspended installations, airy structures and intimate formats invite proximity with the viewer. The latter is no longer one of care and attention, as if it were meant to protect what it contemplates.
Finally, temporality is a fundamental theme. Fragile works are ephemeral: they evolve, deteriorate and transform. They exist as traces, imprints or vestiges. The experience they offer unfolds at a slow, silent pace, inviting attentive perception of the passage of time.
Thus, the aesthetics of fragility reveal an artistic stance that values what disappears, what cracks, what barely holds together. It transforms vulnerability into poetic strength and invites the viewer to confront not the imposing or the monumental, but the invisible persistence of what still trembles.
Memory is seen as ‘unstable’ and a form of anxiety manifests itself first through an acute awareness of the fragility of memory: images, stories and traces are never fixed, as they appear, blur and fade away. This instability opens up a space where the viewer is confronted with the possibility of loss.
Each trace seems temporary, threatened, as if it could dissolve before our eyes. This fragile aesthetic is no accident, but the heart of visual language: the work itself becomes the site of unease, that of an ever-insufficient imprint.
This unease is fuelled by personal and collective narratives. By combining elements linked to his own history (mourning, absence, loss) with broader cultural references (historical memory, lost heritage), she seeks to create an ambiguous space. The viewer perceives a constant oscillation: between the intimate and the universal, between experience and archive, between testimony and fiction. This tension produces an existential anxiety that runs through the entire work.
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ABOUT CLAIRE DUCENE
2025 – Selection of Solo Exhibitions
2025 – «Ressouvenirs», Bénévent-l’Abbaye (FR)
2022 – «Ce blanc du ciel qui fait disparaître les montagnes...», THANKSgalerie, Mons (BE)
2020 – Les Archives Imaginaires de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)
2020 – «La Collection Invisible», TRE-A galerie, Mons
2019 – Memorias del Bruc, Biblioteca Verge de Montserrat , El Bruc, Barcelona
2018 – 2019 – Imaginary Museum, The Mini Davis Lisboa Museum, Barcelona
2018 – Croisière au cercle polaire. Été 1929, La Maison Losseau, Mons
2017 – Paysage intérieur, La Maison Culturelle d’Ath/Le Palace, Ath
2016 – Mundos paralelos, Mercado de la Merced, Rota, Spain
2016 – Double Room, ISELP, Brussels
Curating
2025 – Second edition of Fictive Archive Investigations / Two Suns & Two Moons, Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MT)
2025 – Dissolve & Dissolve, QUATUOR+1 avec Rémy Hans et Muesli Collective (Louis Darcel, Hannah De Corte, Joao Freitas), Curatrices: Claire Ducène & sabine sil (Sabine Jeanne Sil), POELP, Brussels (BE)
2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
Selection of Collective Exhibitions
2025 – Pulsations. Visages d’une Cité, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons (BE)
2024 – WOMENWAVRE, La Plateforme Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Wavre (BE)
2023 – Endless House Collective X_Out of the Walls, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, Uccle (BE)
2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
2021 – Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS., La Louvière (BE)
2021 – Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie, Abattoir de Bomel, Namur (BE)
2021 – Der Rattenfänger, Galerie Duflon/Racz (BE)
2020 – Prix Artistique de la ville de Tournai 2020 (BE)
2020 – Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles», Campus du Sart Tilman, Liège (BE)
2020 – Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation, Museum Palau Solterra de Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia (ES)
2019 – Endless House VIII_three ways, Babel visningsrom for kunst,Trondheim, Norway
2019 – Endless House VII_Unreal houses, La Maison Pelgrims, Brussels
2019 – Shifting foundations, Hectolitre, Brussels
2018 – +5, Espacio Pinea, Cadix, Spain
2018 – 27ème Edition du Prix de la Gravure - Edition spéciale / Post-imprimé, Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière
2018 – Tuinfeest 2018, Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Flex Xl Flanders Expo Gent
2018 – ORL+, Rog Galerija Zelenica, Slovenia
2018 – Filtr x EP7 - Observez bien ce que fait le maçon, EP7, Paris (FR)
2018 – Nuances d’Acier. Création et réalité industrielle, Musée Ianchelevici de La Louvière - MILL (BE)
2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)
2017 – Off Course Young Contemporary Art Fair, Palais de la Dynastie, Mont des Arts, Brussels (BE)
2016 – Radieuse, cur. by Emmanuel Lambion and Frédéric de Goldschmidt, 7, quai du Commerce, 1000 Brussels (BE)
2016 – Master Salon 2016, Vanderborght building, Brussels (BE)
2016 – KoMASK 2016 Master Salon, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2016 – The Bloom Experiment!, installation created with Nicolas Riquette by the Endless Room Collective, The Bloom Hostel!, Brussels (BE)
2016 – Video project At poet Verhaeren’s home, Exhibition Les Gestes Bleus, La Maison Losseau, Mons (BE)
2016 – Endless House II, a collective project by Claire Ducène, Nik O’La and Emilie Terlinden, The Moonens Foundation, Brussels (BE)
2016 – International Collective Exhibition Cachet de la poste faisant foi, Fondation Hippocrène / Villa Mallet-Stevens, Paris (FR)
2015 – International Exhibition, the Art Le Logge - Piazza del Comune, Assisi (IT)
2015 – Exhibition of the artists selected for the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Prize, Photography,W:Hall, Brussels (BE)
2015 – Paul Hamesse Prize, Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
2015 – Hainaut Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Charleroi (BE)
2014 – Images, Installation, collective exhibition “Taille Unique”, Collectif Contrefaçon, Galerie du 48, Rennes (FR)
Illustrations & literary, sound, photographic collection
2023 – House27 by GHOSTWRITERS, photographic and audio collection, 2023, published by Transcultures with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
2022 – Histoires allonymes, short story included in the collection Ghostwriter Library, produced and published in limited edition by Stéphanie Roland, Blue Marble exhibition, ISELP (BE)
2021 – Maisons d’écriture, illustrations for texts by Christine Van Acker, Eric Piette and Axel Cornil, La Maison Losseau Editions
2018 – Les nombreuses étendues ouvertes de la mer. Journal d’un voyage au cercle polaire arctique.
Texts by Françoise Delmez and illustrations (engravings/photographs) by Claire Ducène, Les Editions Traverse
Festivals
2025 – TraverSons Bruxelles - Installation & group listening session of ‘Invisible Brussels’
2025 – «Stream of Consciousness», a video & sound mapping in collaboration with Christophe Bailleau, Mons en lumières, Sound and Light Festival, Mons (BE)
Awards & Grants
2024 – Lecture-screening of dreamlike archives from House27, Le Vecteur, Charleroi (BE)
2021 – House27, Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS, Théâtre Le Central, La Louvière (BE)
2024 - Arts Support Scheme, Arts Council Mal ta («Two Moons & Two Suns» by Fictive Archive Investigations
2024/2023/2022/2021 Grant for Creation & Artistic Residency - Wallonie Bruxelles International / WBI
2022 - Grant for Publishing - FWB («House27» by GHOSTWRITERS.)
2022 Grant for Culture, la commune d’Uccle (Laureate)
2021- Selected to the Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie
2020 - Grant for artists working in Hainaut (Laureate with the collective GHOSTWRITERS.)
2020 - Selected to the Prix de la ville de Tournai 2020
2020 - Selected to the Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
2020 - Selected to the Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation 2020, Catalonia (ES)
2016 - Ifa Gallery Prize (Special Mention)
2015 - Hainaut Prize of Arts (Laureate)
2015 - Selected to the Godecharle Prize, Painting (shortlisted)
2015 - Selected to the Paul Hamesse Prize
2015 - Selected to the Art Prize of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
2015 - Selected to the Komask Master Salon Painting
Residencies
2024 – Villa Psaigon, Dingli (MT)
2023/2024 – La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)
2022 – La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona (ES)
2022 – Fictive Archive Investigations, La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)
2022 – Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (IS)
2020 – Résidence d’artiste Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)
2019-2020 – Hectolitre, Brussels (BE)
2019 – Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim (NO)
2019 – ACUR residency, The Arxiu Comarcal de l’Urgell, Barcelona (ES)
2019 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator & resident) (ES)
2018 – ORL+, Ljubljana (SLO)
2018 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator & resident) (ES)
2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)
2017 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (ES)
2016 – Pinea-Linea de Costa, Rota (ES)
2016 – Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, (FI)
2015 – Ferme du Laid Burniat, Godecharle Prize (BE)
2015 – Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi (IT)
2015 – Palazzo Rinaldi, Basilicata (IT)
Teaching
2024, 2025 – «Archive and Fiction» & «Text’s Gene rator», Literary workshops at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA
2021 & 2022 – Literary workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai
2017, 2019 – Lecturer, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA
2018 – Literary workshop at the Institut Saint-Luc - Ecole Supérieur des Arts, Brussels
Since 2015 and ongoing - Head of Les Ateliers de la Mémoire
2008-2021 – French & Literature Teacher, IEPSCF, Uccle
Conferences & Masterclass
2025 – Symposium «Fiction(s) in Archive», Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MA)
2024 – «L’Archive-fiction», BNA-BBOT, Brussels
2023 – Poétique de l’archive fictive, ISELP, Brussels
2023 – L’archive fiction au coeur des institutions, ISELP, Brussels
Academic Background
2011-2016 – Master’s degree in Visual Arts, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2010-2016 – Degree in Photography, Académie de dessin et des Arts visuels de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
2006-2008 – Master’s degree in Cultural Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2003-2007 – Master’s degree in French and Romanic Languages and Literatures, Université Libre de Bruxelles
