Camille Pradon, Sol Absolu
Exhibition Text
Solo show at Gallery Lilia Ben Salah, Paris, France
I was honoured to write the exhibition text of Camille Pradon’s solo show at Lilia Ben Salah Gallery during the summer-autumn 2023.
© Romain Darnaud
Excerpt: ‘The elements have a very special presence in Camille Pradon’s work. Traces of wind, water, minerals, combustion infuse her minimalist compositions. The artist, whose interest lies in contact areas and the exchange of memories, narratives and materials that flourish there, borrows a wide range of medium, from drawing to photography, moving image or ceramics. This approach, that could appear fragmentary, is tied around the essential thread of appearance and disappearance of language and image.
© Romain Darnaud
Sol Absolu brings together stages from a long journey, inviting the viewer to think about the displacement between several territories, as well as the interpenetration and superposition of temporalities and cultures. Playing with our perception and the gallery’s unique boat shaped architecture, Camille Pradon offers an immersion between surface and depth, darkness and light in the continuity of explorations carried out in recent years between the Mediterranean shores. Combining past and present, the artist explores the strata of stones, various layers of ground levels and the depths of the seabed. Fragmented narratives and the way invisible and intimate maps link together discontinuous territories fascinate her as they captivated the poet Lórand Gáspár, whose presence permeates the exhibition that borrows his title.’
© Romain Darnaud
Camille Pradon, Sol Absolu
Exhibition Text
Solo show at Gallery Lilia Ben Salah, Paris, France
I was honoured to write the exhibition text of Camille Pradon’s solo show at Lilia Ben Salah Gallery during the summer-autumn 2023.
Excerpt: ‘The elements have a very special presence in Camille Pradon’s work. Traces of wind, water, minerals, combustion infuse her minimalist compositions. The artist, whose interest lies in contact areas and the exchange of memories, narratives and materials that flourish there, borrows a wide range of medium, from drawing to photography, moving image or ceramics. This approach, that could appear fragmentary, is tied around the essential thread of appearance and disappearance of language and image.
Sol Absolu brings together stages from a long journey, inviting the viewer to think about the displacement between several territories, as well as the interpenetration and superposition of temporalities and cultures. Playing with our perception and the gallery’s unique boat shaped architecture, Camille Pradon offers an immersion between surface and depth, darkness and light in the continuity of explorations carried out in recent years between the Mediterranean shores. Combining past and present, the artist explores the strata of stones, various layers of ground levels and the depths of the seabed. Fragmented narratives and the way invisible and intimate maps link together discontinuous territories fascinate her as they captivated the poet Lórand Gáspár, whose presence permeates the exhibition that borrows his title.’
Info
Solo show,
May 31 – September 16, 2023
© Romain Darnaud
