Claire Bouffay

FranceGalleries & Collectives

Biography

Claire Bouffay’s plastic and historical research aims to demystify our systems of production and value, by working with materials, reinterpreting old objects and techniques, and writing new histories. She wrote her Master’s thesis on the question of digital technology and its alternatives, and is continuing her reflection on technologies, their history and evolution. In 2021, she took up residence at the Pistoletto Foundation in Piedmont, to conduct research into metal mining in the Alps, and the relationship between the environment and human activity.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera group presentation, 2025 Individual work details not supplied

Galleries & Collectives

Gallery / Collective: PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera (FR)
Curator / Team: Curators: Sacha Guedj Cohen (FR), Camille Velluet (FR), Boyana Dzhikova

These works explore the sea as an inhabited and mysterious ecosystem populated by mythological beings, unfamiliar forms, and enchanting yet unsettling landscapes. The artists move between poetry and terror, reflecting humanity’s fascination with the unknown and with the ocean as one of the last partially unexplored territories. The underwater world becomes a metaphor for the hidden depths of the human psyche, where attraction, fear, imagination, and uncertainty coexist.