Camille Blatrix

Standby Mice Station

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Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Winter Guard, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Winter Guard, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Winter Guard, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Baby Forest Activity Table – Janod® (front) and Grumpy Cat (Summer), 2020 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Grumpy Cat (Summer), 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Standby Mice Station (Autumn Box), 2020 (detail). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Roche Tower (Spring), 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Maxinmarine (Autumn), 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Weather Stork Point, 2020 (left) and Dawson Crying (Winter), 2020 (right). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Weather Stork Point, 2020 (detail). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Standby Mice Station (Winter), 2020 (front) und Mouse, 2020 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Standby Mice Station (Winter), 2020 (detail). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Mouse, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Stork, 2020 (front) and Two Candles, 2018 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Camille Blatrix, poster for the exhibition, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Design: Offshore

➔ Exhibition text and related events (PDF)
➔ Press images (ZIP)

The sculptures of French artist Camille Blatrix (* 1984) are inspired by the mass-produced objects that surround us, but are made using traditional techniques and exquisite handcraft. The results are objects imbued with inexplicable affect and evoking machines whose use remains cryptic. Perhaps devices from the near future?

Press clippings:
Sculpture’s rising star Camille Blatrix on process, pathos and YouTube learning, Wallpaper* (1/2020)
Handgemacht und zum Heulen schön, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung (1/2020)
Grumpy Cat und der Kapitalismus: Camille Blatrix in der Kunsthalle Basel, SWR2 (1/2020)
Am Ladegerät der Gefühle, Badische Zeitung (1/2020)
„Ein gutes Gedicht geht unter die Haut“: Diese junge Frau gestaltet das Lyrikfestival Basel mit, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung (1/2020)
Camille Blatrix’s “Standby Mice Station”, Art Agenda (2/2020)
“This is my favorite song to dissociate to”, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard (8/2023)