Chiens perdus avec collier

A woman dressed in a two-tone suit walks surrounded by red ornaments and accompanied by a dog from a painting of another era. A dog hides under a clover tablecloth while its collar hangs over its head. The Poivre et sel take a stroll. Friezes tangle swirling collars, now where did the pet go ?

From an approach that has the stroke of something drawn on paper, Ines Claus seems to come to meet us to talk to us with her words clothed with objects. From the nearly painted poster, from edition to installation, she shows the importation of a common dream, of a culture contrasted by the cheap’n’chic. The artist collects books, beautiful images that inspire her to use logical presentation supports.

Her approach extracts an element and/or an attitude captured from reality to bring it back to a simple evidence. A chromatic flat tint, a collage, this interconnection study seeks an object-based aphorism that Ines Claus subtracts from a fascination for visual languages peculiar to advertising, furniture designing and fashion. Like so, the quintessence of Gucci that represents the form of an elite, here coveted by a substance namely the people, creates a pattern close to pop culture that marches in front of it. The object of desire then takes an attitude, it becomes a character, a near animism, and hybrids itself into an aesthetics proper to the way the artist reads her environment. A dog, then its collar that forms something other than its original utility, a pair of shoes with a weird detail, simplified by the pictorial technique of the artist, become an axiom, expressing a nearly Californian dandyism within a popular Belgium. These social symbols then unify to form a narrative material that changes the common sense of what we are used to seeing and that loads her work with a true reading of our behaviors and our social and cultural perspectives.