About

In 2020, Clémence Goubault studied photography at the University of Westminster in London. Alongside her studies of English and Spanish, and then literature, her visual research is built around the self-portrait. The mirror became her instrument for questioning identity and the world of appearances.

In 2022, she wrote literary reviews for En attendant Nadeau: Un peintre se meurt sur La mort de Francis Bacon by Max Porter (Ed. Seuil, 2022). Her series ‘Shimmering wanders’ pursues the leitmotif of the mirror, with colour work. His photographs evolve towards a pictorialist investigation of the intrusion of the body into the landscape.

In 2023, at the end of her end-of-study internship at Agence VU', she completed a research paper that questioned the place of words alongside photographs. Since then, she has focused on long-term documentary production. She spent several months working alongside people affected by the earthquake in Al Haouz, documenting the resilience of the villagers by working closely with them. Morocco occupies an important place in her questioning of the world. She has other work on Morocco in progress, notably on Amazigh farmers in semi-rural areas. Since September 2024, she is based in Cairo.