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. Her research on Arthur Rimbaud culminated in Les Veilleurs, a thesis published in 2025 and awarded high honors, exploring the intersections of poetry, neuroscience, and metacognition. It was through this research that she coined the concept of neuropoetics, which has since become central to her interdisciplinary practice. An article extending this research is currently in preparation. She maintains a threefold practice 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.

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Her work has notably been presented at Place des Vosges in Paris, where she exhibited Ce que le jour doit à la nuit in 2019. Solitary travels, deserts, and interdisciplinary encounters also inform her process.

 

She is currently developing the visual-art dimension of her broader interdisciplinary research into rhythm and metacognition, a new style she named Figurvival, whose first major pictorial cycle is titled Shelt-Her.