Claire Shār is a painter and writer born in Paris in 1990.

 

Her practice brings together pictorial research, literary inquiry, and neuroscience, centered on the question of rhythm as a mode of human subjectivation, in the sense developed by Henri Meschonnic.

 

After a French Baccalaureate in Visual Arts, she studied Italian literature and art history, before entering a business & marketing school to situate creation within the movement of the real and the circulation of images, narratives, and forms. She subsequently worked for several years in marketing, copywriting, and creative project management while continuing evening training in drawing and painting, establishing a method that moves between language and image, conceptual rigor and figurative embodiment.

 

She later resumed academic research in literature where she develops a theoretical framework she calls neuropoïetics while working on research related to the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (including a published thesis and an article in preparation). She pursued a threefold commitment as an artist, a French literature teacher, and a somatic practitioner. Rather than a functional accumulation of roles, this simultaneity operates as an ongoing inquiry into attention and the ways body, language, image, and mind co-determine one another. Her work has been presented, notably, in the exhibition “Ce que le jour doit à la nuit” at Place des Vosges. Solitary travels, deserts and interdisciplinary encounters inform her process. 
 

She is currently developing a plastic extension of her broader interdisciplinary project on rhythm and metacognition, whose first major pictorial cycle is titled Shelt-Her.