Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 2026
Claire Tenu
Claire Tenu has developed a lyrical and speculative approach to photography, at the crossroads of painting and montage, topographical description and narrative, writing and installation.
Born in 1983 and graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2007, Claire taught at the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in Metz between 2017 and 2021. For the past fifteen years, she has been involved in numerous artistic and educational experiments during residencies at primary and secondary schools.
In recent years, she has worked on the creation of two photographic observatories of landscapes, one on the Seine Valley in Normandy (with Maxence Rifflet), the second on the Fontainebleau Forest, which led to an exhibition in Barbizon in 2023. These recent experiences have reinforced what has been the matrix of her artistic activity since the beginning: the view as a pictorial form between document and work of art, connecting the near and the far through the work of composition.
At Château Lafite, she took an interest in the construction of the new wine cellar from several angles: she followed the building site and photographed the various protagonists at work (workers, contractors, project owners and project managers). She shows landscapes that explain how the new building discreetly blends in with the lines of the château; she also photographed elements of local architecture in the hamlets around the wine estate that echo the new winery.
