Clémentine Portier

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Artist and designer, my work explores the boundary between fiction and reality through narration and imagery.

About

Artist and designer, my work explores the boundary between fiction and reality through narration and imagery.

I’m particularly interested in the shifting moments when reality turns into fiction, in the spaces where perception begins to waver. My approach combines writing, photography, performance, and installation, to build narratives that question identity and the way we apprehend the world.

After my study in Fashion and Textile Design at La Martinière Diderot and a Master degree in Fashion and Communication, I’ve learned to use fashion as a narrative language to explore the relationship between body, clothing, and imagination.

Since 2022, I have been developing my practice as an artist and freelancer, alternating between personal projects, creative collaborations, and cultural mediation work.

In 2023, I co-founded Éditions Présages, an independent art publishing project that explores the intersection of image, writing, and experimental print. Through limited editions, fanzines, and collaborative works, the studio serves as a space for storytelling, visual research, and poetic experimentation.

Currently based in Japan under a Working Holiday Visa, I continue my artistic research through encounters and local experiences. Travel has become a field of observation and creation for me, a way to collect stories, images, and voices that feed into my ongoing exploration of everyday fiction.

  • Joined November 2025

Languages

  • EnglishAdvanced
  • FrenchFluent
  • JapaneseBeginner

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Retail
  • Education
  • Professional Services
  • Travel & Hospitality

Projects · 7

Visions is an audio edition produced by a mysterious character — a computer scientist–medium whose visions manifest both on mountaintops and inside hard drives. Moving between reality and fiction, the recordings and fragments that compose this CD invite the listener to open their ears and let themselves be haunted — by ancestors, memories, dreams, and by the echoes of past and future — in order to perceive hidden resonances and unfold possible worlds. Somewhere between an archive and a pirated disc, Visions is the first chapter of a sound series that plays with time and the potential of sound as an interstice. Produced and realized with Editions Presages.

  • Artist

A personal project created around Lac Léman, where the body and its reflection intertwine with the surface of the water. The photographs explore identity and perception, capturing the quiet tension between what is seen and what is imagined. photo

  • Photographer

Personal project — a photographic exploration of male fantasy and perception, questioning desire, identity, and the way masculinity is represented. photo photoshop

  • Photographer
  • Photoshop Editor

Production of collages and zines for Éditions Présages. Independent self-publication, printed in small editions. graphicdesigner designer indesign

  • Artist

Creation of a set of seven postcards for Éditions Présages. Each card features a fine pencil drawing inspired by nature. illustrator graphicdesigner

  • Illustrator

Work in progress - Development of a drawn bestiary of imaginary creatures, large-scale works (A2) using charcoal, Chinese ink, and fine liner. illustrator graphicdesigner

  • Illustrator

Creation of three textile patterns on the theme of photography and architecture for the BUCOL collection (2021).
 Printed on 100% silk muslin. Designed from personal photographs and developed in Photoshop. designer textiledesign textile photoshop

  • Artworker

Work experience· 8 roles

Facilitator and Mediator · Grand PalaisJul 2025 – Jul 2025 · 1 mo

Managing queues, guiding visitors and providing exhibition information

Sales Advisor · DiptyqueMar 2025 – Mar 2025 · 1 mo

Rhinestone transfer, processed sales transactions, delivered brand narratives, customer service and personalized advice

Sales Assistant · Festival LumièreOct 2024 – Oct 2024 · 1 mo

Interim role; facilitating queues and assisting visitors during festival

Sales Advisor · Zadig & VoltaireJul 2024 – Jul 2024 · 1 mo
Freelance Textile Studio Mission · Lunas Textile AtelierDec 2023 – Dec 2023 · 1 mo
Co-founder / Publisher · Editions PrésagesDec 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs
Workshop · La Martinière DiderotMar 2023 – Mar 2023 · 1 mo
Studio Assistant · Amca OvalSep 2022 – Sep 2022 · 1 mo

Education

Master’s in Fashion and Communication · Lumière Lyon 2 University2030 – 2022
DSAA Fashion and Textile (Four year Higher degree in Applied Art) · La Martinière Diderot, Lyon2030 – 2021
BTS Fashion Design (Two year Higher degree in Applied Art) · La Martinière Diderot, Lyon2030 – 2019

Certifications and awards

TOEIC2019 – 2025

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