Camille Blatrix

Camille Blatrix’s sculptures, which he refers to as “emotional objects”, move tenuously between more affective and descriptive tenors. They are constructed with both a highly technical precision while being subverted my more instinctive intrusions, as if an exaggeratedly industrial workmanship had been invented to cover for a vast underlying register of emotional intensity. His works, most often in wood, resin, and aluminum, are assembled and processed by way of advanced machinery and technical processes such as 3D modelling and wood marquetry.

Blatrix (b. 1984, France) lives and works in Paris. He has had solo shows at the Centre d’Art Contemporain du Synagogue de Delme (Delme, France, 2021), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, Switzerland, 2020), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris, France, 2019), and at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco, USA, 2016); his work has also appeared in group shows at the Renaissance Society (Chicago, USA, 2021), the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris, France, 2019), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2018), and Sculpture Center (New York, USA, 2014), among others. His work also was shown in the 2015 Biennale de Lyon. In 2014, he received the Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard.

SOLO SHOWS

2022

Rotten to the Core, Ordet, Milan, Italy

The Goat + Everyone We Know, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

In the Attic, Balice Hertling x The Intermission, Athens, Greece

2021

Weather Stork Point, La synagogue de Delme, Delme, France

Pop-up, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA

2020

StandBy Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2019

Les Barrières de l’Antique, La Verrière Hermès, Brussels, Belgium

Fortune, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France

2018

New Day Rising, Taylor Macklin, Zurich, Switzerland

Somewhere Safer, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

2017

On Your Knees, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

Unview, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, USA

2016

Horoe, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

French Kiff, Palette Terre, Paris, France

Solo show at Liste Art Fair, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

Paramount Ranch III, Paramount Ranch, Agura Hills, USA

2015

No School, Mostyn, Llandudno, UK

2014

Un ticket pour la suite, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

2013

Victor: il suo cuore vuoto al completo, Gasconade, Milan, Italy