Clémentine Bruno,

Bambi Woods Presents

20 May 2021 — 30 May 2021

Space 52 and ERGO Collective, Athens

Bambi Woods function like a radio that never announces its programme in advance. Initiated in 2019 and gathering contributions from over fifty voices, Bambi Woods are a collective enunciation springing from the anonymity of murmur, a molecular vibration infiltrating processes of individuation while encrypting the status of the author. Like a balaclava-covered DJ sticking black tape on their records’ labels, B.W. distribute chains of reactions and affects that are no longer based on recognition and identification.

Bambi Woods’ next intervention will take place across two mirroring spaces, ERGO Collective and Space 52, both located in Athens. Combining curating, art making, poetry and performance, Bambi Woods Presents is an assemblage of ready-mades, radio stations, internet portals, photographic slides and not-yet-determined works of art that will attempt to recode architectonic forms of authorship through delegated chains of commands and mechanical processes. Throughout the project, B.W. will shape-shift into constellations of nameless entities, inviting the audience to follow a story without script in which power play, meaning production and the ideological figure of the ‘present author’ dissolve into a cadavre exquis of situations. Less a manipulation of the real than a simulated reality, Bambi Woods Presents deals with the phantom of wording and unfolds like a game of which the only rule is to be a game without rules.

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Supported by ΝΕΟΝ Organization for Culture and Development and takes place as part of ERGO Collective’s curatorial programme for 2021.

Clémentine Bruno

Clémentine Bruno’s complex praxis can be condensed into a study of painting’s presets and indexicals, working through its genres and repetitions as a means of questioning the painter as singular genius. If we liken the writer to the painter, as Bruno posits in her work, words as much as images are infinitely interchangeable to produce different narratives and visual compositions.

Project Native Informant has held two solo exhibitions of Bruno’s work, Ironclad Contract, 2020 and Then We Are Both Satisfied, 2020, each exhibition held works as groupings that are suggestive of the form and grammar of language, Bruno draws attention to the constraints of painting to derive meaning in a linear sense. Throughout her practice, she mines the art historical canon, making use of both identifiable as well as obscure references, each work could be compared to a word that when seen together read as a disjointed narrative.

In 2021, she presented a solo booth, 10 to 16 at Frieze Art London, in 2022 and 2023 she has taken part in group exhibitions in various galleries including Fluxus Art Project at Nicoletti, London, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, Halle Nord, Geneva and Project Native Informant, London. Recently, One Gee in Fog, Geneva presented a solo show of Bruno’s works and TONUS, Paris opened a new solo show in September 2024.

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