Marie Cloquet Belgium, b. 1976
Marie Cloquet (b. 1976, Ghent, Belgium) creates fragmented scenes of ethereal displacement in her works inspired by the West African coastal town of Nouadhibou. In what she calls “collateral damage,” she reveals chaos left behind by modernization, inducing a sense of lyrical expansiveness in her works—a feeling of beauty, loss, and melancholy.
Cloquet builds imaginary worlds with distorted photographs—where marbled skies rest on beaches and islands of makeshift homes litter the naked sea. In it, she explores what she refers to as “parallel” planes of existence, in which beauty and ruin coexist—where remnants of European Imperialism are embedded and washed upon the West African shoreline. Cloquet captures these “impressions” through photographs, which are then torn and reconstructed. She distorts and stretches these images beyond their original scale, manipulating perspective and size; they are then printed on drawing paper with a light-sensitive emulsion, over which she uses watercolor to paint over. Cloquet abstracts physical space and introduces a “peripheral” perspective of modern reality, in which she allows her viewers to experience the dualities of human development in the natural world.
There is a false sense of security in her works, yet there also exists a sense of urgency to take shelter in the small crevices of her makeshift homes. It is her response to making sense of a chaotic world. Her barren landscapes are depictions of a society, a rejected society, in which progress has been suspended and left behind. Cloquet reveals a hidden space, touched, but not yet molded by modern civilization. Her works are something familiar yet foreign— a reconciliation of modern objects placed within a nostalgic environment, where traces of colonial civilization still exists in the modern world.
Born in 1976, Cloquet received her education in LUCA School of Arts in Gent, Belgium, where, having been influenced by her family, she had initially wanted to pursue the profession of architecture. Her deep-rooted interest in the field is still remnant in her works, which she began to show to the public in the early 2000s. Since then, Cloquet has held solo exhibitions at Koraalberg Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; and more.
Cloquet currently lives and works in Gent, Belgium.
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jason haam: five years, part two
15 Mar - 29 Apr 2023In celebration of the gallery’s fifth anniversary, Jason Haam is pleased to present a special two- part exhibition with the artists who have shaped and developed the identity of the...Read more -
Marie Cloquet: You want it darker - We kill the flame
7 - 26 Apr 2022Jason Haam is pleased to present You want it darker – We kill the flame, a solo exhibition by Belgian-artist Marie Cloquet for Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London. The...Read more -
Dark Night of the Soul
28 Dec 2021 - 1 Apr 2022(Extended Through April 1st) ‘… In happy night, In secret, that nobody saw me, Nor I anything, No light and guide But what in my heart was burning …’ -Translation...Read more -
Group Show
Ahmed Alsoudani, Oliver Arms, Peter Buggenhout, Marie Cloquet, Jung Jae Ho, Linn Meyers, Jin Meyerson, Anthony Pearson, Florian Schmidt, Mircea Suciu 25 Jan - 12 Mar 2019Jason Haam is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring a selection of works by: Ahmed Alsoudani, Oliver Arms, Peter Buggenhout, Marie Cloquet, Jung Jae Ho, Linn Meyers, Jin Meyerson,...Read more -
Temporalizing Temporality
Peter Buggenhout & Marie Cloquet 8 Nov 2018 - 14 Jan 2019Jason Haam is pleased to present Temporalizing Temporality a two-person exhibition by Peter Buggenhout and Marie Cloquet. The show will open on November 8th, 2018 and remain on view through...Read more
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Art Brussels 2022: la foire des amoureux de l'art
Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj, L'Echo, May 1, 2022 -
April Exhibitions at No.9 Cork Street
Frieze , March 28, 2022 -
Jan Braet kijkt naar kunst en het leven, in bloei en verval, zoals de rozen.
Artroze, September 25, 2019 -
Pompidou Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Klara, September 10, 2019 -
The Search for the New Land Preliminary Notes on Marie Cloquet’s Work
Ory Dessau, FOTO-AGENDA, September 8, 2019 -
Traveling Light - Marie Cloquet
Paris Photo, September 8, 2019 -
Marie Cloquet - Traveling Light
Antwerp Art, September 8, 2019 -
Kunst als onrendabele oplossing: de magistrale collages van Marie Cloquet
Annelies Vanbelle, The Art Couch, January 24, 2019 -
낯선 시공간 속으로... 피터 부겐후트·마리 클로케 2인展
윤 다함, ART CHOSUN, December 6, 2018 -
시간성: Temporalizing Temporality
THE SEOULive, December 1, 2018 -
Temporalizing Temporality 전
PUBLIC ART, December 1, 2018 -
선형을 벗어난 시간
한 지희, Art In Culture, December 1, 2018 -
<아트&아트인> '조각과 회화의 만남' 피터 부겐후트와 마리 클로케
장 지선, 일요시사, November 19, 2018 -
갤러리 제이슨함, 피터 부겐후트·마리 클로케 작가 2인전 개최
MBN 뉴스, November 16, 2018 -
새롭게 창조된 시공간을 만나다...피터 부겐후트&마리 클로케 2인전
김 희원, 세계일보, November 10, 2018 -
[미술전시]제이슨함 시간성·피비갤러리 이동기·메이스페이스 김용호
박 현주, 뉴시스, November 9, 2018 -
성북동 갤러리 제이슨함 '시간성: Temporalizing Temporality' 2인展 개최
김 영철, 디자인정글, November 8, 2018 -
Woman power on the Leie
GWEN, Art Explorer, August 22, 2018 -
Darkrooms and drawing pens with artist Marie Cloquet
Dorien Schelfhout, The Word, September 8, 2016 -
Marie Cloquet labour-intensive collages from fictitious landscapes
Tanya Rumpff, 4 The Korenbeurs Scheidam, July 18, 2012 -
Reconstruction within imagination
지 은경, Monthly Photography, September 1, 2011 -
Picture this: Marie Cloquet
museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, April 25, 2010