BACKGROUND
2015
Master Degree in Arts
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design [Esadse], with honours, FR
2014
Fine Arts Academy of Bologna [AbaBo] IT
2013
Bachelor Degree in Arts
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design [Esadse], with honours, FR
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
Culture Moves Europe, 2023, TN
Nouveau Grand Tour, Tuscany, 2021, IT
Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2020-2021, FR
Supported by Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation
Villa Salammbô, Tunis, 2020 and 2021, TN
Ateliers Côteaux, Tunis, 2018, TN
Ateliers du Grand Large, Lyon, 2017-2020, FR
Redeyef Documentary Film Festival, 2016, TN
Délocalisation, Casablanca, 2013, MCO
Kunst Turm, Weimar, 2013 DEU
REVIEWS & PRESS
Archivalia Vol. I, In Ruins
Mutant Ruins and Flows, Clelia Coussonnet.
Illustrated book, various authors, + more
Artpress n°504
Introducing Camille Pradon, Camille Prunet,
November 2022, Read online (Fr-En)
Artaïs
Camille Pradon - Dans le mouvement des images, Marie Gayet, March 2022, Read online (Fr)
Curtain Magazine x Art Curator Grid
Camille Pradon, an Emerging Curatorial Practice: Between Paris and Tunis, Art Making, Writing, Curation, Films Selection, and Bathing in the Depth of Images,
Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva, August 2021
Point Contemporain
En direct des expositions: Camille Pradon "Metaphora, prélude", Claire Luna, April 2021
French Cultural Institute of Tunisia
Mais que cherchent-elles, nos âmes ? Marianne Catzaras, September 2020, Read online (Fr)
Slash/Paris
Les promesses de la matière, Lisa Eymet, May 2019
Images en devenirs, Marie Gayet, February 2019
Eyes on Iran
Screening and meeting with Director Sanaz Azari
In partnership with Centre social du Babet
Cinémathèque of St-Étienne, May 15th 2023
Carte Blanche to the Gabes Cinema Fen Festival Faces of the new Tunisian Cinema & international
In partnership with La boîte, un lieu d’art contemporain
By Camille Pradon, after the festival's programming.
Cinémathèque of St-Étienne
— March 28th 2023
— October 12nd 2021
— May 13rd-16th 2019 (online)
Comme si la pluie nous avait plu
Solo show of Adrien Chevrot
Point Commun, espace d'art contemporain Annecy
December 5th 2020 - March 27th 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Marcel Dinahet, 4 artworks
Plongeon de haut vol, Les radiophares, Le Ferrie, Autre part.
FRAC Occitanie - Montpellier, Dec. 2022
Read online (Fr)
Olivier Adeline, Where Painting Begins
Point Contemporain, May 2022
Read online (Fr)
Conversation Vol. IV with Marcel Dinahet
« Returning to a place which had already been apprehended » in Chemins de la création: Arts et Territoires. Multi-authored book, La Muette, Oct. 2021
Order (Fr) / Read online (Fr)
Almanach des Ides de Mars
Multi-authored, non-commercial edition, 1500 copies, June 2021. By Chedly Atallah, Léandre Bernad-Brunel, Marion Moskowitz, Sophie Pugnet and Emmanuel Saulnier. Non commercial edition, 1500 copies.
June 2021
Adrien Chevrot, Comme si la pluie nous avait plu
Point Contemporain, Dec. 2020
Suni Prisco, Performing Magical Gesture
Interview with the artist by Camille Pradon
Point Contemporain, Feb. 2020
Suni Prisco, Moths
Crous Gallery, Paris, Feb. 2020
Read online (Fr)
Architecture as a Political Ghost
fig. Independent and architectural critic Magazine, n°5 OXYMORE, June
Available at bookstores
Conversation Vol. III with Ismaïl Bahri « Ils m’ont montré ce que je n’avais pas su voir... »
Jeu de Paume Magazine, June 2017
Read online (Fr)
Conversation Vol. I & II with Sanaz Azari & Marie Voignier
Master Thesis, Esadse, 25 copies. Feb. 2015
• Vol. I, Sanaz Azari, « J’ai arrêté le cours de ce que je faisais pour en faire un film, on peut donc dire que c’est un peu le cinéma qui prend le dessus sur la réalité »
• Vol. II, Marie Voignier, « Je me penche sur des situations porteuses d’éléments de fiction en tant qu’éléments du cinéma. »
SOLO SHOWS
SOL ABSOLU, lilia ben salah, Paris, June 1st - July 15th 2023 FR
+ more
METAPHORA, PRÉLUDE, Petite Galerie - Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
April 2021, curator: Claire Luna + more
CORPS PREMIERS, Ateliers du grand large, Décines, June-July 2019 FR
LIGNE DE FUITE, Ateliers du grand large, Décines, Feb.-March 2018, FR
GROUP SHOWS · FESTIVALS · PUBLIC SCREENINGS
2022
Partis pris et points de vue, with Farah Khelil, Amel Bennys, Malaika Temba, Inji Effaltoun, Zoulikha Bouabdellah and Baya Mahieddine
lilia ben salah Gallery, Paris, FR
Retards, délais, décalages et rendez-vous ratés, y compris avec soi-même Curator, Vanessa Morisset, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, FR
2021
The Hermeneutics of Resonnances
Curator, Alessandra Carosi, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
L'Étreinte, Fondation Tunisie pour le développement x Archivart, Tunis
Curators: Dorrine Nasri & Wafa Gabsi, TN
There But Also Against, Curator, Agnese Čemme, with Christine Herzer, Stephanie Joyce, Constanze Flamme, Ag Gallery, Riga, LVA
Le Court en dit long Festival, Curator, Sophie Pécourt, Wallonie Bruxelles Centre x Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
To Exhibit in Case of Emergency, Curator, Andy Ranquin, Paris, FR
Screening, Curator Andy Ranquin, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2020
Un pas vers l'après, Curator, Férielle Zouari, B7L9 Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, TN
Visual Messages, Kunstmatrix, International Visual Literacy Association, NY, USA
Utopies visuelles, Elbirou Gallery, Sousse, Tunisia, TN
10 Years of Finis Terræ, with Ismaïl Bahri, Etienne Bossut, Gregory Buchert, John Cornu, Paul Devautour, Marcel Dinahet, Nicolas Floc’h, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Élie Godard, Camille Goujon, Ron Haselden, Kapwani Kiwanga, Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Camille Pradon Enrique Ramírez, Éléonore Saintagnan, Thorsten Streichardt, Laurent Tixador, Capucine Vever, Sébastien Vonier, Ulla von Brandenburg, Leïla Rose Willis...
Finis Terræ, Island Art Centre, Ouessant, FR
Parenthèses, Les Limbes Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
MUR ! MUR ?, Radio Mojo, Bruxelles, BE
2019
Bleak Friday, Curator, Zara Burton. Manchester Museum of Natural History, UK
All Come From Dust - من طين / Sans sommeil, National School of Architecture, ENAU المدرسة الوطنيّة للهندسة المعماريّة والتعمير, Sidi Bou Saïd, TN
Paysages Manufacturés, Curators: Margaux Auria and Joris Thomas.
Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, resonance. Aqueduc, Dardilly, FR
Les promesses de la matière, Curator, Lisa Eymet.
With Bianca Bondi, Claudio Coltorti, Alexandre Korzeniovski, Mountaincutters, Camille Pradon, Suni Prisco, Anna Tomazewski, Villa Belleville, Paris, FR
El Kazma w Lahwez - Gabes Cinema Fen Festival, Curator, Amal Ben Attaia.
With Younes Ben Slimane, Ali Cherri, Sofiane El Fani, Fakhri El Ghezal, Nissene Kossentini, Amine Koudhaï, Amine Messadi, Camille Pradon, Zineb Sedira.
Gabes, TN
Festival Traverse Vidéo 22nd Edition, Carmélites Chapel & FRAC Occitanie - Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
2018
Semaine asymétrique, 14th edition, Polygone Étoilé, Marseille, FR
23 A/D, with Annabel Bonnard, François Bauchet, Anja Clerc, Christophe Marx, Éric Jourdan, RanDom Lab... Flux Libre Contemporary Art space, St-Just St-Rambert, FR
What We Do In The Shadows, with Léa Bouttier, Sarah Del Pino, Mélissa Mariller, Camille Pradon, Ateliers du Grand Large, Décines, FR
2017 · 2016
Semaine asymétrique, 13th edition, Polygone Étoilé, Marseille, FR
Neu Now Festival, online + Wersteirgasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
45°NORD 4°EST, with Benjamin Laurent Aman, Capucine Vanderbrouck, Camille Pradon, Romain Vicari, Marta Caradec, Olivier Adeline..
Ceysson-Bénétière Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
We Can Be Heroes, Graineterie & Cité du Design, St-Étienne, FR
2015 · 2014 · 2013
(é)mergences, Lux Nationale Scene, Valence, FR
Cession, with Ismaïl Bahri, Frank Chalendard, Rémy Jacquier, Camille Saint-Jacques, Yann Sérandour… Ceysson-Bénétière Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
Méridiens, Marc Charpin Auditorium, Esadse St-Étienne in partnership with Massenet Conservatoire, FR
Rundgang’14, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, IT
Helix Aspersa Maxima, With Simon Collet, Chloé Drouet, Camille Pradon, International Design Biennale 9th edition, St-Étienne, FR
STAGE DESIGN & SCENOGRAPHY
2022 Oceanic Feeling
Scenography and lighting of the concert Oceanic Feeling by Koki Nakano and the dance performance of Marion Motin
Days Off Festival, July 6th and 7th, Paris Philharmony
In collaboration with Vincent Lallement (Philharmony)
2022 Vagàlam’
Co-scenographer of the exhibition, with artworks from by œuvres from the Departemental Collection of Contemporary Art of Seine-St-Denis. Curator, Claire Luna. Louise Michel High School, May
SYMPOSIUMS & TALKS
2022 Meeting with curator Claire Luna and artists Chedly Atallah & Camille Pradon, Paris 8 Vincennes University, St-Denis, an invitation by curator Marion Zilio, Feb. 11th
2020 ID’BA! Metaphora Blue To Which We Belong, Meeting Camille Pradon. Screening and debate with Marianne Catzaras, followed by a reading of Mira Hamdi. French Cultural Institute of Tunisia, Sept. 14th
2016 Dreamed Archives, Painter Memory: The In-Betweens of Jeremy Liron. About the Disaster Archives. By Camille Pradon
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design, April 7th
2015 What Remains of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Thoughts?
By Camille Pradon and Philippe Roux, guest: François Dosse (biographer). Forces Motrices, St-Etienne, Nov. 19th