'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' 

Born in 1986 in Roanne, Clemence de la Tour du Pin is a French conceptual artist currently living and working in Berlin.  

With a childhood spent in the shadow of her aristocratic heritage, it seems natural that du Pin's artistic practice has steered away from the restraints of rule and ritual. Her dissatisfaction at such routines has seen her work develop into a type of survival mechanism that constantly evades the monotony of everyday life.  

She is always sharply focussed on the present, eager in waiting for the surprise encounter, and it is through her experience that she discovers the stimulus for her practice. It seems that even the most mundane subject can be transformed and re-evaluted, as she offers her eyes to the viewer for a brief moment - encouraging them to take on her resourceful perspective.  

This is well and truly evident within her abundance of drawings, which can be seen as recordings of her daily meander. They present a fragmented view into a variety of situations, whereby scribbled notes and staccato lines give glimpses of a personal narrative. The viewer is almost always pushed and pulled to reconstruct but a complete linear story is rarely du Pin's aim. 

In some ways she acts as a kind of director, organising collected scraps and appropriating them through hand and body. Whether it be image, text or object, the act of editing and re-presenting casts a collective importance over the material she selects. We are encouraged to leaf through her work like the pages of a diary, shuffling through sheets of consciousness where the line between something and nothing appear confused. Reality becomes theatrical, authority becomes trivial - We are but lazy dogs enticed to chase.