Clément de Gaulejac
Artist, writer and illustrator Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montréal since the early 2000s. He holds a PhD (Études et pratiques des arts) from the Université du Québec à Montréal after studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Clément de Gaulejac’s work involves research into the scope and limitations of language. Employing a humorous approach, he creates surprising dialogues between images and words, between the read and the symbolic. His most recent exhibition, entitled Les Maîtres du monde sont des gens organized by Galerie UQO (Gatineau, 2019), was presented at Musée régional de Rimouski (2023), at Plein-Sud, centre d’exposition en art Actuel (Longueuil, 2022) and at l’Écart (Rouyn Noranda, 2021). His work has also been exhibited in several venues includingthe Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme, 2022), the Port-Musée de Douarnenez (France, 2022), Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes 2 (France, 2020), Axenéo7 (Gatineau, 2015), VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine (Montréal, 2015) and Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montréal, 2013). As an author, he has published Petites différences, les anciennes les modernes et toutes les autres with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2023); Tu vois ce que je veux dire ? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent, Terrains vagues collection, PUM (2022); Les artistes (2017), Grande école (2012) and Le livre noir de l’art conceptuel (2011) published by Éditions Le Quartanier; Les tailleurs d’histoires (2015) and Les cordons de la bourse (2014) published by Éditions la mauvaise tête. He has maintained the blog l’eau tiède since 2006. [Source: VOX, 2023]
