Clem

There has always been artistic expression in my life. Music, photography, ... Very early on, I developed a self-taught jack-of-all-trades.

For a long time, I stayed away from drawing, which has always attracted me, having decreed that I didn't know how to draw.
And then one day of idleness in lockdown, in 2020, I took out some pencils and started sketching.
I enjoyed it, I continued. As if I had finally found a support to deposit my inner bubbling up.

Nudity and eroticism quickly became important, even central, subjects, with questions about the legitimacy and intimacy of what I put on paper.

I have found in eroticism the support that matches what I have to express.
We see a lot of artists on social media who seek to desexualize bodies in an act of activism. A necessary attitude if ever there was one in today's world.
For my part, I claim the erotic side of my drawings: it is my overall desire for the female body that I draw. I couldn't find a better way to tell how I am touched by a curve, a texture, a detail, a light. I have often been frustrated by the words I could say, all too bland, imperfect, fragmented. Even those who describe my approach here cannot really express this inner turmoil that takes shape on paper.

Then... When I had to find names for these works to stage it here, I chose to remain neutral. The numbers you'll see in my gallery are perhaps less poetic than evocative, somewhat cold names. But I invite you to look at the drawing for what it is: a pencil line, a brush stroke on a sheet of paper. A set of gestures whose infinite quest is to materialize the emotion I feel when looking at these bodies. These works are carried by a surge of desire, with no intention other than the visual. To put a word on it would be too simplistic and would not reflect my approach.
If these traits happen to touch you in this way, then I'll be delighted.

Clem by Fred

I had the pleasure of having been drawn by Clem, several times.

His sensitive gaze is attracted by lights, shadows, poses, lines, curves...
He likes to explore the diversity of bodies and shapes. His drawings reflect their unique side.

It's a special emotion to see a drawing by Clem, a way for me to recognize and assume the sensuality and eroticism of my forms, or to discover other silhouettes.

Clem by Laure from Sismique & Sensuelle

Clem is a discreet, precise man, long restrained by his very technical professional constraints. 

Confinement opens a saving breach towards an instinctive expression of what drives him intimately. 

 

He takes out some paper, a pencil and starts drawing.

 

He then became a modest observer of his models and found a new vibration in poses and sensual situations. He first keeps his sketches to himself and then feels the need to show them – under a pseudonym. 

 

Clem wants to leave room to the viewer's imagination, even going so far as not to want to name his works.

 

From the gaze to the pencil. 

 

We like to imagine his motivations, the situations experienced or fantasized. Maybe it's a story of desire, of sensual instinct. What can he see behind his eyes?

The formats of his drawings grew as he practiced. 

The love of feminine curves and their sensuality would gradually dominate conventions and reason?