CM Clemente

Clemente's formal language is founded on a repeated use of a material quartet. Wood, wax, concrete, and clothing. These function as a structural skeleton, upon which additional themes may be hung. Working with this material set seeks to document a paradoxical celebration and disgust of bodily physicality in an oblique, textural way.

His work conceptually considers a relationship between failure, the flesh, and consumption. Together, these aim to propose systems of an alternative transcendence. One enmeshed within the corporeal world. In Evangelical Christianity, one is not saved but rather “born again.” Both the sacred and the profane exist at the same level. It all speaks to bodies yearning for higher meaning.

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