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 layered environments.

 

With Verticales, she unveils a suite of new works that extend her research into the emergence of visual and narrative forms across shifting geographies. The exhibition unfolds as a crossing articulated in the feminine plural, composed of fragments of images, objects, and watercolours on paper, opening onto 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 a perceptive witness to invisible circulations and interwoven temporalities.

Her practice engages with the porous ties between matter, recollection and environment, through narratives that are both collective and intimate, echoing 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 extending her reflection on the porosity of boundaries between beings, elements and eras. The series of leporellos, Aria, offers, in turn, a rhythmic reading 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, where verticality becomes a way of resisting erasure.

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