Pictures
I make pictures.
My work is an inquiry—across mediums—into what sustains relation without domination. I make pictures, yes, but more precisely, I create conditions where presence, perception, and attention can interrelate without force. This is the frame through which I practice what I call Vita-Socio-Anarco: a lived commitment to life, to social relation, and to the dismantling of hierarchy.
Whether in painting, photography, drawing, facilitation, or code, I return again and again to questions of being and becoming. I am less interested in what a work says than in how it listens—how it witnesses, opens, and alters the space around it.
My process emphasizes:
- Layering and integration — creating depth through the fusion of gesture, form, history, and relation.
- Hybridization — blending media and modes without dissolving their individual integrity.
- Ontological sensitivity — allowing each element to remain what it is, even within a shared frame.
- Consent and attention — treating observation itself as a relational act, not a neutral one.
- Skill as care — letting technical proficiency support, not obscure, the deeper movement of inquiry.
My current bodyTime() series, for instance, arises from years of durational life drawing practice—spaces where models and artists co-create in slow time. These double-exposure photographs don’t aim to capture or resolve; they trace the soft tension between stillness and becoming, offering atmospheres of presence rather than portraits. In them, I resist spectacle. I trust ambiguity. I practice the meticulous blur.
This is not a search for beauty alone, nor is it critique for its own sake. It is a continual act of refining what is worth attending to—and how. I believe art can function as a working model of ethical reality. Not as grand solution, but as quiet enactment. A field of encounter. A form of care.
André Clements