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"Like the infinite possibilities of enlargement that the first daguerreotypes allowed, Nicolas Clauss's random video paintings invite us to examine the depth of a fraction of a second. In these hypnotic slowdowns, the face, the gaze, the micro-movement of the model unfold a fascinating landscape that takes us to the heart of the being and the thought." Anne-Isabelle Vignaud, head of the cultural events department, Centre des monuments nationaux.

"The portrait unfolds on the screen, it constantly replays an immutability that is only an illusion. Something varies inexpressibly, almost imperceptibly and moves in a tiny undulation. Always other but resembling, this portrait leaves our senses doubting what they perceive. Something wavers in the image, this lock of hair, the leaves of this tree, a passer-by in the landscape...
At the beginning, only three seconds. Three seconds of filmed material, but shaped by the matrix of a computer, deliver a generative and endless work that the artist calls random videography and in which the images are written, rewritten in a free and indolent choreography. The time at work stretches, suspends, withdraws, distends, lives, takes its breath, breathes in a soft arrhythmia, however it is neither continuous, nor linear, it is multiple and the substances of its plurality interpenetrate. Worked by the number, composed by the algorithm, the images are an indefinite and dreamlike score that no "reality" of time shapes. Nicolas Clauss explores in his works the plasticity of time and of the filmic image, voluntarily letting this plasticity escape him, letting the encounter resist the moment, cross the durations, fascinate the glances." Julie Cailler for Point contemporain, August 2017