Talk:Claudia Comte

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Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for speedy deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for speedy deletion:

• "Lightning Symphony", inflatable sculpture by Claudia Comte, Messeplatz, Basel, Switzerland, 2025.jpg
• Claudia Comte in 2020.jpg
• Installation view of "Temporal Drift (coral, leaf, cactus)" (2025) by Claudia Comte, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland.jpg
• Performance "La Danse Macabre" by Claudia Comte, Bex & Arts Triennale, Bex, Switzerland, 2025.jpg

You can see the reasons for deletion at the file description pages linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 21:09, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I am writing on behalf of artist Claudia Comte to request that the images be restored to her Wikipedia page. The images are owned by the artist and she has explicitly consented to their use on Wikipedia to help the public learn about her work. We believe their inclusion would meaningfully improve the article for readers.

Thank you for your time and assistance. Mina Fredborg (talk) 08:00, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Facts to be added about Claudia Comte's work process

Working across site-specific installation, painting, sculpture, video, performance and wall painting, her practice reflects her longstanding interest in translating the history and memory of biomorphic forms through traditional hand processes, industrial and machine technologies. Comte’s installations include monumental wall paintings and serial sculptures inspired by organic patterns and morphology such as waves, sonar, cacti and rock strata. Through her art, Comte is drawing on the powers of communication, knowledge and symbiosis between animal and plant life. Comte’s dynamic and shape-shifting objects pay testament to the intelligence and transformative capacities of the ecological world.  

The trunks that Comte works with are never cut by, or for, her but are salvaged, offered to her by Swiss foresters working in her native region near Lausanne, at the foot of the Jura Mountains. Once a tree has been found, and embraced, the artist decides on the outline of the piece, shaping it directly with a chainsaw before refining, polishing and oiling it, by hand, to a smooth finish using her mother’s own special oil and wax formula. Mina Fredborg (talk) 07:54, 14 April 2026 (UTC)