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Clemenceau Project
In April 2026, Philip Gillet intervenes in a room of the Clemenceau high school, which is disused and slated for demolition.
For this in situ intervention, the walls, ceiling and floor are covered with a network of colored lines that extends across all surfaces of the room.
A selection of paintings is then integrated into this environment, blurring the boundaries between the artwork, its support, and the space that houses it.
The installation brings together two generally distinct modes of production. On the one hand, oil painting, built up over time through successive layers. On the other, direct inscription on the wall, linked to a more immediate practice of gesture and to urban culture.
Far from setting them against each other, the work highlights what brings them together: a shared attention to line, to its repetition, to its ability to produce rhythm, depth and movement.
More than an opposition between studio painting and urban mural intervention, the project reveals a common artistic vocabulary based on the repetition, accumulation and variation of the line.
