Locating in Disarray by Juliette Claire

Locating in Disarray is a multisensory performative installation by Juliette Claire, emerging from loss, mourning and ecological grief.

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Yellow abstract installation art Juliette Claire, Untitled (Oxalis), 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

Locating in Disarray by Juliette Claire

Locating in Disarray is a multisensory performative installation by Juliette Claire, emerging from loss, mourning and ecological grief. The artist draws upon a biophilic methodology, connecting to our innate affinities with the natural world. Juliette’s work is inspired by close personal losses enmeshed in the impacts of the human driven Sixth Mass Extinction. Locating in Disarray engages visitors in sensory encounters, activating the gallery space with aroma, sounds and movement. Her ongoing intention is to build reciprocal relationships with place, people and more-than-human-bodies, situating art practice in opposition to a hierarchical and extractivist approach to life.

Artist Biography

Juliette Claire is a mixed-media artist based in Naarm, practising on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture (Honours) from RMIT and an Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design from Melbourne Polytechnic. Juliette’s work focuses on ecological loss and mourning within the web of the Capitalocene (emphasising capitalism’s role in the ecological crisis). Using multisensory installation and performance, her works are spatial, durational and engage the senses. She explores the ephemeral through often biodegradable and immersive installations shaped by durational ‘repetitive acts’ – such as growing flora, harvesting flowers for ink, stringing hundreds of individual flowers to make rope, and walking over plant material to make marks. Juliette’s art practice critiques extractive systems that dominate nature by prioritising reciprocity and imagining other possible futures no longer subsumed by capitalism.

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