• Claire Fontaine
  Instructions for the sharing of private property, 2006
  Courtesy the artist; Air de Paris, Paris; and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
  

Paris-based Collective
Founded in 2004

After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a ‘readymade artist’ and began to elaborate a version of neoconceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box – as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes – there is always the possibility of what she calls the ‘human strike’. Claire Fontaine makes herself an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. For the Biennale of Sydney, she exhibits a video that demonstrates how to pick a lock.

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