Matthieu Claus

ARTIST STATEMENT

Matthieu Claus (born 1977) works with what remains: scrap, traces of use, and materials that have lost their original function. Within these remnants, he explores how meaning can emerge from decay and transformation.
Through scraping, overpainting, and reordering, he allows materials to shift between abstraction and recognition. His work does not result in representations of visible reality, but in mental landscapes where fragmentation and repair coexist.
For Claus, impermanence is not an endpoint but a beginning. Worn material holds poetry. Abstraction arises not only from form and color, but from the emotional space that unfolds between the work and the viewer.