DEGRE ZERO

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Artist statement

Degré Zéro is a curatorial and creative structure founded in 2015 by Théo Casciani & Cléo Verstrepen. It is both the name of signature of the artworks they produce in duo and curatorial platform which organises collaborative projects, exhibitions, editions and talks. Degré Zéro’s multidisciplinary projects mix Théo Casciani & Cléo Verstrepen’s respective practices. Théo Casciani is an author graduated from SciencesPo. Paris and member of the Workshop of the Contemporary Writings, in La Cambre - Brussels. Through his work, he aims to open literature to other medias and apprehends it as a contemporary art on its own. After philosophy and political sciences degrees, Cléo Verstrepen currently conducts cultural studies researches. Her curatorial practices and her appeal for humanities lead her to get interested in the social and cultural significance of artistic creations. As so, Théo Casciani & Cléo Verstrepen’s common projects involve various theoretical, virtual and physical materials, from video and texts to sound and sculpture, and mainly take the form of spatial compositions. These productions aim to create situations to which the viewers are exposed and that, rather than imposing a narrative, allow them to build their own, parting from what they see and perceive and through an intensification of their gaze. The artworks appear as blank descriptions and create potential for presences to take over them, inverting the exhibition relationship. The platform Degré...

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