Fortune

Camille Blatrix’s work explores sculpture through the lens of everyday manufactured objects. His intricate installations combine diverse materials—metal, wood, plastic—juxtaposing industrially produced elements with handcrafted ones, creating a delicate balance that gives each piece a sensitive, subtle presence.

For his first institutional exhibition in Paris, Blatrix was invited to inhabit the “sky” of Lafayette Anticipations, the glass cage atop the exhibition tower designed by Rem Koolhaas. The space, overlooking the city’s rooftops, evokes a penthouse, suggesting a setting where the pursuit of opulence meets more spiritual, mystical quests—an exploration of potential redemption.

At the center of this extraordinary interior, an ambiguous sculpture, reminiscent of a bridge and high-tech kitchen islands, presents the fundamental elements of life—water, fire, air—as stations of an unknown rite of passage.

Fortune marks Blatrix’s first institutional monograph in France and continues a longstanding dialogue with Lafayette Anticipations, following the 2016 preview exhibition Faisons de l’inconnu un allié and the semi-permanent work created for the Foundation’s basement in 2018. All works in this project were produced on-site in Lafayette Anticipations’ workshops.