Claire Becker
Mexico, CDMX
Multidisciplinary artist born in Paris/France. Sculptor and photographer in Mexico City with more than 120 international shows and 30 solo exhibitions.
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Claire Becker, born in Paris, France, grew up in Strasbourg where she studied art, literature, music, theater and dance. At 22, she left her country to go to the Washington School of Ballet in Washington DC, and after winning a dance scholarship in New York City, decided to stay in that city she fell in love with. She lived ten years in New York, a short time in Tokyo, and for the past 26 years in Mexico.
She has been a sculptor for the past 26 years. Dance and painting, which were two complementary aspects of her creativity, merged into one: Sculpture. In it, she found a more profound way to explore what fascinates her most, the double nature of the human being, physical and spiritual.
Her camera accompanied her in all of her travels and is a key tool in her creative process. Over the last years she has shown photography alongside her sculpture work.
Her work has been recognized with several grants and prizes and is part of important private art collections, museums’ collections, and public spaces.
She has participated in more than 120 exhibitions and international shows in galleries, art fairs and museums in Mexico, USA, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Australia, Singapore, China, France, Germany and Italy.
She has presented 30 solo exhibitions in galleries, museums and public spaces, mostly in Mexico, like the Tlalpan History Museum (We´ll All Make it to Heaven, 2020), the Women’s Museum (The Table is Set, 2016), the Traeger and Pinto Contemporary Art gallery (Head in the clouds, 2014), the downtown Plaza Juarez (Bbla, 2012), the Chopo Museum (Sweet and Sour, 2007), all in Mexico City; She presented Materia Dispuesta in The Museum of Contemporary Art of Yucatan (MACAY) in the city of Merida, Mexico, in 2013; Dismantled Reality in the Museum of Anthropology of the City of Xalapa, Mexico, in 2005.
Statement
"Art is my translation of what happens when my human self and my divine self shout, dance, sing or converse inside of me."
"I look for significance to be implicit in the form itself, and for the forms to be meaningful in space, appealing to all the senses, provoking the spectator sensually, intellectually and spiritually."
"My work has a conceptual, playful and critical side, and a more abstract, sensual and lyrical side; however, the two coincide in my main theme, which is exploring the intimate motivations of human behaviors, in particular to question what we assign to fate in order to disengage ourselves from our responsibility (such as the institutionalization of violence, greed and destruction of our own habitat)."