“Rosaire” is a total proposition by the self-taught artist Clément Bataille for the gallery’s Salon space. It is an opportunity for the artist to present a selection of new works, while also transforming the gallery’s intimate space: to host his works, the Salon becomes a chapel of another kind.
The vaults soften, enveloping those who enter, drawing them into a profusion of images of bodies in struggle and displaced objects. Clément Bataille appropriates the language of iconography through resolutely offbeat interpretations—saints marked by radical discolorations who, among his subjects, seem to invent another religion.
This display, punctuated by scrutinizing eyes—suffering yet focused—forms a collection of a distorted mythology, entirely his own, offered to our gaze. Here, his works become an overflow of bodies which, represented incompletely, reveal—through what is missing—the full poetry of this vessel of the soul, in confrontation with itself or with others.
Religious in form yet profane in subject, his paintings and ceramics allow him to domesticate personal ex-votos that humorously subvert the gestures traditionally represented.

Texte by | Ulysse Feuvrier