Claire Fontaine is a collective artist established by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in 2004 and whose name refers to Marcel Duchamp’s seminal Fontaine piece and a French brand of school notebooks. Claire Fontaine has declared herself a “ready-made artist”, engaging in a form of neo-conceptual practice that restlessly questions form, singularity, and authorship. Spanning neon, video, sculpture, painting, and text, Claire Fontaine’s practice voluntarily retreats from questions of style to blend in with industrial forms and modes of production already used by American conceptual artists and the proponents of minimal art in the 1960s and 1970s. Through the appropriation and diversion of aesthetic cannons and grammars, akin to a form of post-modern uncanniness, Claire Fontaine addresses manifestations of failure, helplessness, and standardization in the clutch of social, political, cultural, and financial systems that define and structure contemporary Western societies.