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.

Clémentine Portier

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.

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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.

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Language

English
Advanced
French
Fluent
Japanese
Beginner

Work Experience

Sales Advisor at Zadig & Voltaire
July 31, 2024 - July 31, 2024
Welcomed and advised customers; stockroom management; assisted with merchandising and unpacking deliveries
Studio Assistant at Amca Oval
September 30, 2022 - September 30, 2022
Social Media - Photo Shooting - Photo editing
Freelance Textile Studio Mission at Lunas Textile Atelier
December 31, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Textile-related missions including design, social media, and photography work; approximately 10 months across 2022-2023 and 2024
Sales Advisor at Diptyque
March 31, 2025 - March 31, 2025
Rhinestone transfer, processed sales transactions, delivered brand narratives, customer service and personalized advice
Sales Assistant at Festival Lumière
October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024
Interim role; facilitating queues and assisting visitors during festival
Facilitator and Mediator at Grand Palais
July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Managing queues, guiding visitors and providing exhibition information
Co-founder / Publisher at Editions Présages
December 1, 2023 - November 10, 2025
Creation of a creative independent publishing house, developing editions and using fiction as a narrative tool
Workshop at La Martinière Diderot
March 14, 2023 - March 17, 2023
Designed and facilitated a workshop centered on storytelling and narrative creation

Education

Master’s in Fashion and Communication at Lumière Lyon 2 University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2022
DSAA Fashion and Textile (Four year Higher degree in Applied Art) at La Martinière Diderot, Lyon
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021
BTS Fashion Design (Two year Higher degree in Applied Art) at La Martinière Diderot, Lyon
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2019

Qualifications

TOEIC
January 1, 2019 - November 10, 2025

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Retail, Education, Professional Services, Travel & Hospitality
    uniE621 Visions - Editions Présages
    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.
    uniE621 Leman
    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
    uniE621 Fantasme
    Personal project — a photographic exploration of male fantasy and perception, questioning desire, identity, and the way masculinity is represented. photo photoshop
    uniE621 Fanzine and collage
    Production of collages and zines for Éditions Présages. Independent self-publication, printed in small editions. graphicdesigner designer indesign
    uniE621 Postcard series
    Creation of a set of seven postcards for Éditions Présages. Each card features a fine pencil drawing inspired by nature. illustrator graphicdesigner
    uniE621 Bestiary
    Work in progress - Development of a drawn bestiary of imaginary creatures, large-scale works (A2) using charcoal, Chinese ink, and fine liner. illustrator graphicdesigner
    uniE621 Pattern Bucol
    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