Claire Tabouret’s paintings and prints investigate notions of representation, recollection, and the ways in which relationships are constituted. Tabouret is particularly fascinated by ideas around identity, and intimacy and she draws inspiration from magazine photographs, textbooks, and snapshot imagery. These she transforms using a vibrant palette and loose brushwork to create diaphanous veils of Day-Glo colour. Her compositions rarely function as fixed likenesses but instead serve as fluctuating entities which evolve in time.
Born in France, Tabouret studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work is held in Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, among other public collections. Tabouret has had recent solo presentations at the Musée Picasso, Paris, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; her exhibition I am spacious, singing flesh was a collateral event of the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.