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Camille Blatrix

K.O BOX., 2021

Tainted wood, printed plastic, resin
4560 cm

Courtesy the artist / Commissioned by HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

French artist Camille Blatrix (*1984 Paris, lives in Paris) creates elegant machine-like objects in a combination of industrially and hand-made parts. An exploration of our emotional connections to everyday objects is at the center of his practice. I think that I mainly make objects and that every object made on this earth has emotional potential. The emotion is what we project onto the object, no matter whether it comes from a Chinese factory or from a small laboratory by the sea in Brittany.” Beneath the cool surfaces of Blatrix’s works lies the artist’s interest in the obsessions of our consumer society of objects and the extent to which these also reach into the world of art. For this exhibition, he develops a mobile and partly transparent object that is somewhere between chests of drawers and chairs. This functional furniture provides the museum personnel the opportunity to store their personal belongings. By including the staff who go about their everyday work the artists also sheds light on HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark as a place of work with emotional meaning — behind its otherwise official functions.

Camille Blatrix

*1984 Paris, lives in Paris

makes sculptures which present themselves as artifacts from a near future, emulating the forms of everyday objects while obscuring their own purpose.

Blatrix‘s work will be shown in the upcoming solo exhibition at Centre d‘art contemporain la synagogue de Delme (2021), his recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Basel in, Basel; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; CCA Wattis, San Francisco and Mostyn Museum, Wales. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St Gallen; Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; Furosia, Monaco; Villa Medici, Rome; Fondation Lafayette, Paris; Hessel Museum of Art and the CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, and MRAC, Serigan. Blatrix participated in the 2015 Lyon Biennale, Lyon.