Jean Claracq uses his work to deal with issues of loneliness in the social media era, depicting scenes of everyday life featuring isolated individuals against broad infrastructures as an evocation of alienation. His subjects often straddle the departure from adolescence and adulthood, filled with both melancholy and an openness to the future that awaits them.

 

Recent exhibitions include Untitled, Galerie Sultana, Paris (FR); Open Space #7 Jean Claracq, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR); Masculinité(s), Le Sept Elzévir, Paris (FR); Boys Don’t Cry, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers, (FR); J’aime, je n’aime pas, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig (DE); Collection Agnès B, La FAB, Paris (FR); and Le Hurlement du Papillon by Double Séjour, La Maison Moustache, Paris (FR). Claracq's work is included in the collections of the Kadist Collection, Paris (FR); San Francisco, CA (US), and La Fab, Fonds de Dotation Agnès B, Paris (FR).

 

Jean Claracq participates in the exhibition Close, curated by Russell Tovey, on view March 4 - April 6, 2023. For information about the artist please visit Galerie Sultana.