Boris Camaca is a French artist who previously established a career as a leading fashion photographer and art director. In his artistic practice, he interrogates both the technical system of photography and the hierarchy of iconographies by associating images that were either meticulously staged or taken spontaneously. Through combinations of a priori disparate subjects and aesthetics, his work reflects upon systems of categorisation of images while conjuring the tension between control and contingency inherent to photography, focusing his attention on the spaces of negotiation between human intention and machine logic.
A regular contributor to magazines such as Tank, Vogue, Crash and Masses – as well as the co-founder of Télévision magazine – Camaca’s earlier photographs revolved around a singular, discernible aesthetics that combined heavy saturation of colours, humorous styling and an extensive use of narration. Through the confluence of enigmatic characters and improbable settings, Camaca created eerie, uncanny scenes through which he investigated processes of identity formation via reflections on self-representation and the economy of images.
Boris Camaca (b. 1987, France) lives and works in Paris, FR.
His solo and duo exhibitions include Locomotion (The Unfinished Path) II, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2026); Locomotion (The Unfinished Path), Plato, Ostravia, CZ, (2026); Art-o-rama, art fair with NıCOLETTı (duo exhibition with Loreum), Marseille, FR (2023); The Daemon Reconstruction, Voiture14, Marseille, FR (2022); and Room of Solitude, NıCOLETTı, London (2020).
Group exhibitions include Contested Bodies, curated by Marcelle Joseph and Laura Claveria, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2023); XOXO, Axolotl Gallery, Toulon, FR (2020); Approximation, MQ – Museums Quartier, Vienna, AT (2019); and NADA Miami, art fair with NıCOLETTı, Miami, US (2019).
In 2021, he co-produced the book JEEPERS CREEPERS, published by Goswell Road, Paris, FR.
Selected editorials and publications include Tank Magazine, Vogue.it, Dazed, Numéro, Crash Magazine, Masses Magazine, Sleek, Please!, Apart, King Kong, Varon. Selected commercials include Marni, Bimba Y Lola, Nike, Barena, CavEmpt, Angus Chiang, Estée Lauder, and Rombaut.
