Camille Blatrix
°1984, Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris
Camille Blatrix’s sculptures and reliefs combine industrial fabrication with artisanal craft to create enigmatic objects. Manufactured in appearance yet painstakingly handmade, his works employ materials such as wood, resin, and aluminium through processes including 3D modelling and wood marquetry. Each piece conceals coded personal and cultural references, transforming seemingly anonymous forms into vessels of sentiment and memory.
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Blatrix has developed his practice largely through self-directed experimentation, teaching himself techniques such as wood marquetry by way of online tutorials. His hybrid method brings together advanced 3D modelling and the intimacy of craft. Domestic yet futuristic, his works echo cash machines, mailboxes, or protective shells – artefacts that appear to record the emotions projected onto them.
Blatrix refers to his sculptures as “emotional objects,” works that register private narratives through a visual language of precision and restraint. His recent compositions mark a turn towards abstraction: inlaid marquetry surfaces evoke botanical illustrations or art-nouveau ornament – these motifs gesture to human labour, intimacy, and desire, while maintaining the cool detachment of mechanical design.
By fusing technical mastery with poetic sensibility, Blatrix constructs a world where feeling and function are allowed to blur. His objects – at once seductive and resistant – suggest relics from a parallel present, artefacts that perhaps hold our secrets, even as we struggle to decipher them.
