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# "High Pass Filter" by Pierre Clément
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/high-pass-filter-by-pierre-clement/
- Published: 2014-12-19T04:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:42.000Z
- Description: Between sense and nonsense, Pierre Clément pursues his investigation into the origins of the image, its meaning, and its makeup.
- Author: Pierre Clément
- Tags: Art, hypersalon, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Pierre Clément, "High pass filter" (2014), stainless steel antennas, modeling clay, table (works by Vincent Broquaire in the background)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/high-pass-filter-2014-stainsteel-antennas-cmodeling-clay-table-120-x-140-x-60-courtesy-xpo-gallery-vincent-broquaire-in-the-background.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “High Pass Filter” (2014) (works by Vincent Broquaire in the background) (all images courtesy XPO Gallery)

*Editor’s note: This is the fifth piece in a series of articles, images, interviews, and essays for the* [*#hypersalon*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/hypersalon/) *catalogue. The online publication accompanies* [*Hypersalon*](http://hypersalon.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, a weeklong series (December 2–7, 2014) of salon-style exhibitions, artist talks, and conversations on the conditions of networked culture in contemporary art.*

**Title:**

High Pass Filter

**Medium:**

Stainless steel antennae, modeling clay, table

**Description:**

“Between sense and nonsense, [Pierre Clément](http://pierreclement.eu/?ref=hyperallergic.com) pursues his investigation into the origins of the image, its meaning, and its makeup. With modest means and streamlined gestures, Clément creates assemblages of signs from mass-produced objects that reveal our visual over-consumption. From images found on Google Images to industrial drawings ‘locked’ by intellectual property laws, he lures the viewer in by falsifying materials, and by reappropriating techniques that are both cutting edge and analog. These works trap the viewer’s gaze. It’s in this double movement between seduction and repulsion that his works sabotage and disturb our conformist and normative ways of seeing. Through these gestures that question sculpture, design, and technology, Clément reveals the flaws of a system in which error would no longer be human, thereby giving each of these forms an alternate history filled with fictions and new symbols.” — [Marianne Derrien](http://c-e-a.asso.fr/derrien-marianne/?ref=hyperallergic.com), independent critic and curator

![Pierre Clément, "Hectares" (2014), measuring tapes (all images courtesy xpo gallery)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/hectares-2014-measuring-tapes-variable-dimensions-courtesy-xpo-gallery.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Hectares” (2014), measuring tapes

![Pierre Clément, "Fossile" (2014), carbon fiber arrows, foam](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/fossile-2014-carbon-fiber-arrows-foam-87-x-27-x-18-cm-courtesy-xpo-gallery-.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Fossile” (2014), carbon fiber arrows, foam

![Pierre Clément, "Bermuda" (2014), sandwich wedge boxes, spraypaint](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/bermuda-2014-sandwich-wedge-boxes-spraypaint-138-x-95-x-37-cm-courtesy-xpo-gallery.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Bermuda” (2014), sandwich wedge boxes, spraypaint

![Pierre Clément, "Le relief" (2014), in situ installation, Gavarnie, France](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/le-relief-2014-in-situ-installation-gavarnie-france-variable-dimensions-courtesy-xpo-gallery.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Le relief” (2014), in situ installation, Gavarnie, France

![Pierre Clément, "Off the hook" (2014), fiberglass fishing rod, flat screen, video loop](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/off-the-hook-2014-fiberglass-fishing-rod-flat-screen-video-loop-variable-dimensions-courtesy-xpo-gallery-.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Off the hook” (2014), fiberglass fishing rod, flat screen, video loop

![Pierre Clément, "Atlantide" (2014), vinyl film, polystyrene](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/atlantide-2014-vinyl-film-polystyrene-147-x-46-x-17-cm-courtesy-xpo-gallery.jpg)

Pierre Clément, “Atlantide” (2014), vinyl film, polystyrene