“Flowers from Nowhere” is a reference to the utopian novel “News from Nowhere” by William Morris. The installation is made of lotus seeds hand-strung on 500 meters of thread to become bead curtains. The gesture behind echoes female labor, in particular that of Vietnamese immigrant women in nail parlours.

Clerget lives and works in London after completing her BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School and her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art. Her artistic production happens between her kitchen and the studio. The family constraints and responsibilities as a parent define her practice: its varied rhythms leading her to act between frenetic labor and controlled inaction, the domestic mediums that she find easily at home and uses by economy of means. These household objects recall her the Vietnamese community in which she grew up in the suburbs of Paris. They create the link between generations by embodying gestures transmitted simply and naturally. They are both personal and fragments of collective memories. Clerget likes to undo these objects to find their essence as if to seek a hidden meaning. Finally she transforms them and put them back in my own art history.