Camille Pradon: Verticales

lilia ben salah presents Verticales, Camille Pradon’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Born in 1993 in France, Pradon is noted for her multidisciplinary conceptual approach, weaving together photography, drawing, video, installation, ceramics and writing to explore the relationships between memory, perception, and the stratification of place.

With Verticales, she unveils a suite of new works that extend her research into the emergence of visual and narrative experiences across different geographies. The exhibition unfolds as a traversing in the feminine plural, composed of fragments of images, objects, and watercolours on paper, opening a meditation on latent memory — its transformations and its surfacing in the present. A memory made of strata and currents, activated by the evocation of certain waterscapes and architectures — islands, salt pans, thermal baths, cisterns. Pradon arranges these elements into compositions in which each work becomes a sensitive witness to invisible circulations and interwoven temporalities.

Her practice questions the porous ties between matter, recollection and environment, through narratives that are both collective and intimate, resonating with environmental transformations. In Verticales, fragments of images and material elements converse with two ceramic figures, Σφουγγαράς (The Sponge Diver) and海坊主 (The Wrecker), who embody a dual belonging to the terrestrial and underwater worlds, extending the artist’s reflection on the porosity of boundaries between beings, elements and eras. The series of leporellos Aria offers, in turn, a rhythmic reading of the space of the page, cascading like a song. Through this play of correspondences between sculptural figures, images and unfolding formats, Pradon shapes a poetics of persistence and spatial resonance, verticality becoming a way of resisting erasure.

Following her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Sol absolu,  Pradon continues with Verticales a reflection rooted in an embodied relation to the world, where memory and the sensitive topographies of forms intertwine.