Chloé Quenum
Paris, France, 1983
Lives and works in Paris
Chloé Quenum manipulates graphic, linguistic, eclectic, ambiguous, and mobile elements drawn from different cultures, extracting them from their context to give them new consistency through a process of transmutation. These elements take on a new form of life, transforming into material signs, decorative assemblages of indeterminate origin. The artist invites us to examine the effect that contextual displacement and transfiguration have on these objects, while questioning their power of evocation or engendering, their ability to generate new narratives through capillarity.
Chloé Quenum represented Benin at the 60th Venice Biennial. Recent solo and group presentations of Quenum’s work at institutions include: Louvre, Paris; Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Chatou; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris; Fondation Kadist, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Collège des Bernardins, Paris; Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris.
