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CLAIRE TABOURET /// BECAUSE OF YOU OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 7–11 PM DOORS JAN 24 – FEB 21, 2016, TUE-SAT 1-6 PM SADE GALLERY LA / 204 SOUTH AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 323 576 2562 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA / [email protected] / IG @SADE_LA

CLAIRE TABOURET /// BECAUSE OF YOU

Press Release

When reporter’s asked Britney Spears why she shaved her head, her response was, “Because of you.” Parisian artist Claire Tabouret has now re-established her residence, and studio, to the inspirational cauldron that is Los Angeles. This will no doubt benifit Los Angeles, but it has also clearly added a potent new prism to the varied influences that confidently course through her, and her stern-faced portraits, with a conspiratorial, confrontational intimacy. The ultimate artistic impression she leaves us with, and leads us with, and challenges us with, is that she is ultimately a defender of the individuals, or groups, that find themselves historically victimized to the uncomfortable edges of exploitation by out-dated sentimentality. Be it expressed in her subjects of perceived fragility at the age of transitional adolescence, or in the repurposed colonialist subjects that she has re-interpreted, and thusly returned, to a position of power. Her works are evidence of a contrarian path worth following, despite all historically engrained societal pressures repressing such powers within all of us. SADE is pleased to present “Because Of You,” the first solo exhibition by Claire Tabouret in the United States, with an opening reception on Sunday, January 24, 2016, from 7–11pm. Claire Tabouret’s “Because Of You” will be on view at SADE, 204 South Avenue 19, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, from January 24, 2016 until February 21, 2016. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 1–6pm, and by appointment. Claire Tabouret’s show at Sade will be accompanied by text and events with Casey Jane Ellison. For further information, please contact [email protected]

SADE / 204 S AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA / 323 576 2562


To be honest with you, I’m not even gunna lie right now: I feel like when you look at me, youre looking at how I look. Like when you check my ass out, you're looking at how my ass looks, not what my ass looks like. You’re judging. It’s annoying and not hot and whatnot. Because I do that to myself. Like, here I am, right? acting as if my ass looks a certain way, and then I have to take into account how you see my ass too, to behave right? We’re judging me. And why would I need to incorporate your data to find this unhot median. I don’t need that. I don’t need that. And you don’t listen. Wow, I’m guna take a deep belly breath so that I can let my God in right now. Ok I’m back, you need to focus on helping someone else. Like, go help some girl with her art project or whatever. I’m gunna need you to help someone. Go help someone! Youre wasting. My time. By not helping people. I’ve always felt you can’t know yourself if you haven’t hatefucked yourself. But I feel like you haven’t even thought of the concept! You’re insane actually. And you look at me like I’m crazy? I’m the only one who gets it. It’s actually so funny. SO FUNNY! But you know what’s even funnier? That if you didn’t think I was nuts, you wouldn’t think about me at all, ya Clown-ass Bitch. And it’s more important to me that you perceive me than know me rn. I’ll let you know if that changes. I’ll be honest I promise. I’ll be shooting you a nice lil honest text. My God and I are fine. We are fine. So go ahead and invent your God and just go. Because you’re lookin at me funny and it makes me feel bad. Either we fuck, make each other money or try to kill each other. Those are the only options, cutie. So yeah seriously, yah, I need help with my art project still and I’ll wait to hear from you. And don’t tell anyone about that one thing that happened because that was one time and it happened like a year ago so stop bringing it up. —Casey Jane Ellison



SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2016 / Because Of You, Gallery SADE, Los Angeles 2015 / Les Débutantes, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris 2014 / Le regard, dedans dehors, Chapelle de La Visitation, Thonon-Les-Bains, FR 2013 / Les Insoumis, Galerie du jour - Agnès b., Paris 2012 / C’était le printemps, Yishu 8, Beijing, China GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2016 À quoi tient la beauté des étreintes, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand 2015 recto/verso, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Peindre, Dit-elle, Musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris Bonjour la France !, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam City. South Korea Des visages, des figures, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand Un regard sur la collection d'Agnès b., LaM - Lille métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq Une... Nouvelle Vérité, i>, Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival , Château de Fernelmont. Belgium Traits d'esprit, Galerie du Jour - Agnès b. Paris The C Art Collection, Carnelutti, Milan. Italy Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris, Drawing Center, New York 2014 Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy Les esthétiques d'un monde désenchanté, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac Voir en peinture IV, La Box, Bourges L'illusion des lumières, Palazzo Grassi, Venise, Italy Choices, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris Et la peinture?, Galerie du Jour Agnès b, Paris La femme d'à côté, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris 2013 Transfert – dernières acquisitions du FRAC Haute-Normandie, Musée d'Art, d'Histoire, d'Archéologie, Evreux Once Upon a time, Galerie C, Neuchâtel. Suisse De leur temps. L'ADIAF, Centre d'art Le hangar à Bananes, Nantes Au-delà de cette frontière, votre ticket n'est plus valable, Pavillon Vendôme de Clichy, Clichy La Belle Peinture 2, Pisztoryho palác, Bratislava Code Noir, FRAC Haute-Normandie SELECTED COLLECTIONS Pinault Collection Agnès b. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris Fondation Colas FRAC Haute-Normandie FRAC Auvergne Artothèque de Caen Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon Fond Municipal d'Art Contemporain de Pontault Combault Hort Collection


CLAIRE TABOURET /// BECAUSE OF YOU /// INSTALLATION VIEWS


CLAIRE TABOURET /// BECAUSE OF YOU /// INSTALLATION VIEWS



Les Debutantes (Dark), 2016 Acrylic and Fabric on Canvas 91” x 130” (230x330cm)



Detail view of Les Debutantes (Dark), 2016



The Wanderer (Orange), 2016, Acrylic on Canvas, 79” x 57” (200x145cm) SADE / 204 S AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA / 323 576 2562


Detail view of The Wanderer (Orange), 2016



Ashes, 2016, Acrylic on Canvas, 79” x 57” (200x145cm) SADE / 204 S AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA / 323 576 2562


Detail view of Ashes, 2016



Because Of You (Green), 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 24” diameter (60cm diametre)



Because Of You (Orange), 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 24” diameter (60cm diametre)



The Octopus (Orange), 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 11” x 14” (28x36cm)



The Octopus (Red), 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 11” x 14” (28x36cm)



L'exploratrice - de dos . Etude 2, 2015, Acrylic and Fabric on Wood, 12.2” x 9” (31x23cm)



Makeup, 2015 , Acrylic on Wood, 12.2” x 9” (31x23cm)
