Clémence Garcia-Lindenmeyer (born in Paris, France) is an analog and digital photographer. Her artistic practice is inspired by the complex ways Black people relate to their surroundings and communities with their diverse cultures. Her focus lies on African diasporas in the Caribbean (islands and continental) as well as Paris.
In this context, homes, nature and public spaces such as streets, in particular, become recurrent motives in her work, as it seeks to document and capture the ordinary, by finding significance in the subtle and often overlooked parallels of lived life by people and the environment. Frequent visual references in her images are textures of people’s skins, water and nature in general.
Shaped by her Black Cuban heritage, aesthetically, she works with the concept of what can be called “intimate nostalgia”, capturing moments through a filter of the longing for an obscured and repressed past, but also for an uncertain future. One topic that she engages with continually is the brilliant inventions Black people in Cuba create daily to survive and resist ongoing precarity.
She is currently based in Switzerland.
Press
- The Funambulist : Memories of Cuba: My Grandmother’s Forgetting
Residency
- PACT Zollverein – December 2021 as a Member of the Association for Black Art_ists e.V. (ASBA)