Camille Tan

Camille Tan is a French artist and designer based in Brussels whose practice explores a fascination with natural elements. Working primarily with wood, stone, and metal, his mobile sculptures reveal the invisible forces that shape our environment—air currents, light, the movement of people. 

For more than a decade, Tan has collected natural materials and found objects during his travels, hikes, and explorations of urban landscapes. Bearing the marks of time, each element carries its own history, which he reimagines through carefully balanced compositions. They are usually made of elementary natural materials which are articulated by the interplay of forces and balance. The round and organic shapes emerge as living elements, sometimes flabby, almost fluid. 

An avid rock climber, Tan approaches materials with the same sensitivity to weight, tension, and equilibrium that climbing demands of the body. This physical understanding of balance informs every work he creates, resulting in sculptures that feel grounded, delicate, and graceful. His suspended forms invite viewers to experience space as something living, fluid, and continually in motion.

Camille Tan (born 1990 in Rennes) is trained in sculpture and design and is deeply fascinated with archeology and history. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Bretagne in Rennes in 2014 and moved to Brussels in 2017 where he began to specialize in woodworking and design. In 2021 he started making the suspension sculptures which question the relationship between space and time. His work has been exhibited widely in Belgium and internationally, notably in Brussels, New York, and Paris, including at the prestigious Salon Art + Design fair in New York, the premier COLLECTIBLE Brussels design fair and the THÉMA fair in Paris, as well as at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Rennes. Tan lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.