Bio

Claire Wymer is a Swiss Italian visual artist and researcher based in Amsterdam.

Her artistic practice focuses on the sensorial body as the primal medium through which we understand the world. It investigates and questions the historical influence that scientific and linguistic knowledge has on our current understanding of the world, and creates situations in which sensorial knowledge is valued and integrated into our intellect-based culture.  

In line with this questioning, her practice aims to immerse the viewer, and by doing so to activate one’s sensorial understanding. This process gives life to large scale and often site-specific installations, where the multiple layering of different mediums is used to stimulate a feeling of not-knowing and subsequently an urge for physical exploration. Projections, shadows, magnetic pendulums, sculptures and sounds are used in different combinations. The materiality of her installations is dubious, due to the extensive layering of mediums: it’s difficult, often impossible, to logically understand what things are made of, how they stand, how they move. The viewer is in such a way overwhelmed by these non-logical words of fabulation and is invited to sensorially embrace their absurdity.

Claire Wymer recently finished a studio residency with Door Creative Studios in the Hembrugh Terrain in Zaandam (NL) and the Summer School Residency ‘spiritual experiment and sustainable practice’ in Maritz (CZH). She holds a bachelor in Arts and Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally -within others- at the Stedelijk Museum (NL), at The Patan Museum of Lalitpur (NP), at Giovio Museum in Como (IT) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

She is currently working with a collective on ‘The Moraine Research’. The group is periodically meeting at the newborn foundation ‘Moraine’ (initiated by Eva Vanderzand and Yanlief Schwartz) in Beek on the border between the Netherlands and Germany. Together they are experientially investigating different ways in which a collective of bodies and a place can sustain one's individual practice and needs.