Photo by Nathalie Baetens
Born in 1990, Camille Tan is a French sculptor and installation artist whose practice bridges architecture, memory, and material tension. Based between Rennes and Brussels, Tan crafts elemental structures from wood, stone, and metal, exploring the delicate balance between weight and force, support and collapse.
A graduate of L’École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne (ESAB), Tan deepened his conceptual and material investigations during a formative semester at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. His early career was marked by a residency with 40mcube’s GENERATOR program, culminating in a major group exhibition at FRAC Bretagne. Subsequent solo exhibitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Mosquito Coast Factory further established his poetic, tactile approach to space and form.
Tan’s works evoke cliffside dwellings, childhood cabanes, and precarious shelters, often inviting viewers into a dialogue between fragility and resilience. His installations are grounded in raw materiality yet resonate with emotional and architectural depth.
