Claire Fontaine was founded in Paris in 2004 and is currently based in Palermo. As a “collective artist,” Claire Fontaine has adopted the name of a popular French notebook brand to address both the crisis of authorship and new ways of conceiving artistic subjectivity. Claire Fontaine's works have been exhibited at: Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2022), Musée D'Art Moderne de Paris (2021), Museo 900, Florence IT (2020); Galleria Municipais, Lisbon (2019); Palazzo Ducale Genova, Genoa, IT (2019); Confort Moderne in Poitiers, Poitiers, FR; T293, Rome; House of Gaga / Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, US; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2017); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2014); Jewish Museum, New York (2013), ... The work Sensitive content (White sight) reproduces the blurred result that viewers see when various social media platforms use a filter and a symbol to warn them about images with disturbing or cruel content. Freezing the visible in this undefined state emphasizes that it is possible—for some people, but not for others—to make traumatic violence “unseen” and to forget it. For the device that delivers the content to us also classifies and packages it for us, catering to people's tastes based on the algorithm: ideally, we will never see what we should not see, and we will forget what we did not want to know.

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