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After attending the preparatory program at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Camille Peyré joined the Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg in 2021, where he explored patterns with drawings and phtography. His practice became more focused during his Master’s in Photography at La Cambre (2023), shifting from formal research towards an examination of social systems, where aesthetic concerns meet political discourse.A recurring subject in Peyré’s work is labour, a theme he approaches from a situated perspective shaped by his own experience in luxury hospitality. An Self-Portrait in a Changing Room in Switzerland (2018) initiated this exploration, followed by a publication documenting a season spent working in England. While these documentary forms allow him to assert his presence within an alienating environment, Peyré increasingly turns to staging to question social structures and class relations. In the photographic series Gare à vous (2023), he reinterprets three canonical portraits of powerful men, wearing uniforms that contradict their positions. Drawing on the strategy of over-identification, inspired by the Dutch collective Bavo, he appropriates images associated with dominant ideologies and pushes them towards parody in order to expose their foundations. This approach extends into an entire wardrobe, Le vestiaire (2024–2026): twenty-seven garments made from materials associated with the professions they represent, such as a housekeeper’s uniform constructed from sponges and cleaning cloths. Presented together, these workers’ uniforms form a collective ready to resist servitude.
Ideas of refusal and escape have gradually emerged within Peyré’s practice: symbolically, a refusal of an oppressive society and an escape towards constructed alternatives; formally, a move away from representation towards experimentation. He has also returned to moving image, which he first explored as a student. Close to documentary film, Sel sal (2023) shows groups of tourists crossing a desert landscape surrounding a salt lake, consuming an attraction included in their all-inclusive stay in Cape Verde. They escape their everyday lives while remaining detached from what lies beyond the postcard image. In ICU (2026), Peyré shifts from surveillance imagery to an image that itself surveys, extending his investigation of the dominant gaze. Its panoptic display device, centred on an omniscient eye, evokes an oppressive environment from which one must escape, leaving only fragments of visual memory as everything else decomposes. Escape ultimately becomes a form of quest: a search for meaning within hierarchical and capitalist society, as explored in the installation Une prière (2024), inspired by anthropologist David Graeber. Above all, it is a search for social, personal and collective identity within contexts governed by norms. Through sculpture, installation, photography and video, Peyré has developed a distinctive practice that combines irony and cultural references to create spaces of dissent open to those who wish to join them.
Anaëlle Prêtre
PhD in Art History, Université Libre de Bruxelles
︎︎︎Awards︎︎︎
2024: Winner of the FWB Prize, for emerging visual artist, Médiatine Exhibition, Brussels, (BE)2024: Winner of the POELP Prize, Brussels , (BE)
2023: Winner of the Joseph de Conynck Prize, for emerging photographer, awarded by King Baudouin Foundation, Brussels, (BE)
︎︎︎Solo shows︎︎︎
2026: Le temps des moissons, UROCHROME Art Center,
Brussels, (BE)
2024: Circo(ré)volution, POELP Art Centre, Brussels, (BE)
2024: Gare à vous, Galerie du Soir, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, (BE)
2023: Dry Camping, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, (BE)
2022: Lobby Boy, Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels, (BE)
︎︎︎Selected group exhibitions︎︎︎
2026: Chronotopos, Virtual Palace, Brussels, (BE)2026: Come We Go, Chapel of the Grand Hospice, Brussels, (BE)
2026: WORK, Centre culturel Jacques Franck, Saint-Gilles, (BE)
2025: Paris Berlin, Video Festival, screening of Sel Sal, MEP, Paris, France, (FR)
2024: Videonline Festival, organised by Central for Contemporary Art, Brussels, (BE)
2024: Médiatine Prize Exhibition, Wolubilis, Brussels, (BE)
2024: Art au Centre, Window No. 14, Liège, Belgium, (BE)
2023: ENSAV, Espace Artesio, Brussels, (BE)
2023: Screening of Secret Professionnel, Cinema Nova, Brussels, (BE)
2022: Screening of Sel, Sal, Contreplongée by Ateliers Momens, Brussels, (BE)
2022: Interferences, Art Video Screening Festival, Tunis, Tunisia
2022: F(r)iction, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium, (BE)
2021: Vidécaso, Maison de l’Image, Jette, Brussels, (BE)
2020: Fiasco Chérie, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain (CRAC), Montbéliard, France, (FR)
2019: Fin de Série, group exhibition, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg, France, (FR)
︎︎︎Residencies︎︎︎
2026: Research Residency, Le Clos, Calvi, Corsica, (FR)2026: Curation Residency, Come We Go, Grand Hospice, Brussels, (BE)
2025: Research Residency, Coolchanges, Perth, Western Australia
2024: Research and Production Residency, POELP, Brussels, Belgium
︎︎︎Radio and press publications︎︎︎
2024 : ‘Circo(re)volution’ by Clémentine Davin in issue n°92 of l'art même, Brussels, (BE)2024: "Justine Salamine et Camille Peyré" Les artistes de chez nous, by Charlotte Maréchal in the BX1 Brunch. Radio programme broadcast live on 12/02/2024.
2024 : "Enjeux actuels de l'image de soi" article written by Jean Marc Bodson, for the 21/02/2024 issue of “La Libre”, (BE)
2023 : "Exhibition : Camille Peyre brise l'invisibilité des travailleurs au Musée de la photo" by Jean-Marie Wynants, published on 25/12/2023 in the newspaper "LE SOIR", Brussels, (BE)
2023 : "Camille Peyre - Gare à vous", published in OKV on 31/09/2023, publication of Public Art Property Flanders, (BE)