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#MonPremierHarcèlement

Artist
Clémence Vazard
Date
2017
Exhibitions
London Paris Avignon
Medium
Visual and sound installation

#monpremierharcelement is an intimate yet universal story
A year before the #metoo revolution, Clémence Vazard started collecting testimonies from French women who answered her only question:

"What is your first memory of harassment?".

By offering them a unique opportunity to tell their story, to be heard, believed and supported, the artist placed herself as an "enlightened witness" (a stance developed by psychoanalyst Alice Miller in her writings on the healing process of childhood traumas) to operate the power of narrative in the healing process of the trauma.

The goal of the artist was to bring out the narrative of this memory that remains engraved in us, despite (and because of) our ability to bury it deeply, in order to create a multimedia plastic language that would allow her to reveal this collective reality through "affective" visual and sound materials. Their portraits, photographed at the end of the interviews, are fragmented by Clémence Vazard's collage technique according to unique patterns. Each portrait presents a visual fragmentation pattern that echoes the narration of the recorded testimony. The visual choreography, chaotic and unstable, created by all the portraits, responds to the mechanisms of "traumatic memory". The voices of these women, gathered in a sound device, respond and intertwine to create a unity, a common word, a powerful manifesto.

#monpremierharcelement received a grant from the City of Paris and has been exhibited at the FGO Barbara Cultural Centre in Paris (March 2018), at the Avignon City Hall (November 2018), at Make Space Euston Town in London (March 2019) and at the City Hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris (November 2019).
#monpremierharcelement Exhibition in Avignon
Performance with Adelaide Damoah for MakeSpace: Hope for Tomorrow event in London
"ROUGE" performance
by Isabelle Clarençon for #monpremierharcelement project
The installation mixes photographic and sound collages that together form a sensory journey.
Portraits reconstructed using the artist's collage technique are printed in large scaleand positioned in such as way as to surround the viewer.
The vocal testimonies are compiled to spread a clamor, hinting at selected pieces of stories. The exhibition immerses the viewer in his own experience.

Exhibitions

Exhibition

March 2019
London, Euston Town "Make Space : Hope for Tomorrow" public art program

Exhibition

November 2018
Avignon, City Hall

Exhibition

March 2018
Paris, FGO Barbara

Award

November 2017
City of Paris Grant for Social Art Projects

Exhibition

September 2017
Paris, Centre Paris Anim La Chapelle

Exhibition

November 2019
Paris, 7th arrondissement City Hall

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EDUCATION 2020-2022 || Central Saint Martins "MA Art & Science" 2018-2019 || Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de Paris "Experimental cinema" with Yann Guillemain "Large Scale Drawing" with Sarah Navasse-Miller "Drawing as a tool" with Marine Pagès 2008-2010 || Sorbonne University, Paris Master’s degree with a Major in “Arts and Culture” and a Minor in “Arts in Public Space” SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 || Beyond Self Reflection, Boogie Wall Gallery, London 2020 || Through the looking-glass, Gallery ZClub, Mexico City 2019 || #monpremierharcelement, 7th arrondissement City Hall, Paris 2019 || Sois Belle et Tais Toi, Louie Media, Paris 2018 || #monpremierharcelement, City Hall, Avignon 2018 || Topographic Studies, Balades Sonores, Paris 2018 || #monpremierharcelement, FGO-Barbara, Paris (This project received a Grant from City of Paris) 2017 || CUT/E, Objet Céleste, Paris 2017 || #monpremierharcelement, Centre Paris Anim La Chapelle, Paris 2016 || COCO, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris 2014 || COLLAGES, Espace Demory Paris, Paris GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 || Protest & Protect - Feminist Art Museum’s virtual exhibition. 2020 || Beyond Self Reflection, Boogie Wall Gallery's Booth - Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, New York and Online 2019 || #myfirstharassment - Make Space : Hope For Tomorrow, Euston Town, London 2019 || Hey Siri, Why don't I look like that girl on Intsagram? - Visual Diet, M&C Saatchi, London 2018 || Réflexions Quantiques - META collective (co-founded with 12 women artists), Galerie Diese22, Paris 2018 || Infiniment - META collective (co-founded with 12 women artists), FGO Barbara, Paris 2018 || Femmes illuminées - Group Show for "POP meufs" festival, Pavillon des Canaux, Paris 2016 || Tropicool- Summer Group Show by Klin d'Oeil Gallery curators, Klin d'Oeil Gallery, Paris 2016 || Charity Group Show for refugees, Gallery 21, Paris 2016 || Group Show by La Seinographe, Sergeant Paper Gallery, Paris 2016 || Group Show by Foreseen Studio curators, Bruxelles 2015 || Élévation - Chromatic Festival #6 by MassivArt art agency, Chalet du Mont Royal, Montréal, 2015 || May Day - Collagistas Festival #2, Tabya, Thessaloniki 2015 || Klin d'Oeil - Klin d'Oeil Art and Craft fair #6, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris 2014 || Carte Blanche - Group Show by curator Nancy Zastudil, Central Features Gallery, Albuquerque 2014 || Passion For Freedom London Art Festival - Group Show by curators Agnieszka Kolek et Katka Kowalska, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London 2013 || Klin d'Oeil, Le Trabendo, Paris PRESS REVIEW 2020 || Cover and interview about "Beyond Self Reflection" in Arte Visual Mexico 2020 || Interview about "Beyond Self Reflection" in View of the Arts 2020 || Interview in On Art and Aesthetics 2019 || Interview about #myfirstharassment exhibition in Art Critique and Cupo Magazine. 2019 || TV interview "The Art of Feminism" in 51% TV Show on France 24 Channel 2019 || Articles about "Hey Siri, Why don't I look like that girl on Instagram" at Visual Diet exhibition in Arts and Collections, Little Black Book, Hunger. 2018 || Interview about #monpremierharcelement exhibition in Avignon on Virgin Radio and RFM Radio 2018 || Interviews and article about #monpremierharcelement exhibition in Avignon in Midi Libre, La Provence, Le Dauphiné Libéré, Vaucluse Matin, Avignon(s) Mag. 2018 || Interviews in Cheek Magazine and Les Inrockuptibles Column in A Nous Paris, Article by Camille Diao on Radio Nova, France 2017 || Interview about #monpremierharcelement in Les Carnets de La Création on France Culture public Radio , France 2017 || Interview and photo report by Passerbuysm, New York 2017 || Interview about #monpremierharcelement on franceinfo.tv, France 2016 || Interview and photo report in Paris-Shangai-Fashion blog, Shangai 2016 || Interview in 20minutes.fr, Paris 2015 || Article and art critic in Apogée Journal #6, New York 2015 || Artwork publication in Manuel, Revue Érotique #1, Paris 2014 || Article and artshow review in Kiblind #51, Paris - Lyon - Bordeaux 2013 || Interview in Ponytail art blog, London TALKS & WORKSHOPS 2020 || Parcours d'Education au Regard, in partnership with La Gaité Lyrique, Paris 2019 || The Female gaze, invited by MTArt Agency at Marina Rinaldi headquarters, London 2019 || On women reclaiming technology, workshops during Computer Grrrls Art Exhibition at La Gaité Lyrique, Paris 2019 || La médiatisation des femmes artistes, invited by Culture, Femmes et Media at La Bellevilloise, Paris