Claudia Comte
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Claudia Comte’s multidisciplinary practice engages with the memory of organic materials and the evolving relationship between handcraft and technology. Merging painting, sculpture, and architecture, her work examines how natural systems and digital processes intersect within environments increasingly shaped by ecological crisis. “Whoever Has Learned How to Listen to Trees” is the tenth in Comte’s ongoing series of freestanding wall paintings and the first to incorporate text - here drawing from Hermann Hesse’s essay On Trees. Across the 3 x 6 metre double-sided surface, looping black-and-white patterns recall fractal geometries and spirals found in wind patterns, Möbius strips and ocean currents, evoking cycles of growth, transformation and return. Conceived specifically for the Domaine du Muy, the work invites viewers to read the sculpture both visually and spatially, dissolving the conventions of the pictorial frame and reflecting Comte’s investigation into systems of form, perception and environment.