Camille Bleu-Valentin
Camille Bleu-Valentin is interested in colonial memories and their inscription in women's bodies. Her research project, Domos - domesticus: mon corps est ma demeure, takes the form of an immersive installation linking different narratives of silent resistance from colonial and slave history. It focuses on female figures often absent from official narratives: African domestic slaves, the “Filles du Roy” sent to New France and Aboriginal women marked by the residential school system.
In this historical triptych, she examines the physical and symbolic effects of colonial policies on bodies, particularly in the intimate and reproductive realms. By combining organic and symbolic materials - milk-based biotextile, pine resin, dried flowers, and needles - she proposes a sensitive reflection on memory, care and repair. Her approach materializes the legacy of invisible violence in poetic forms while anchoring her artistic gesture in a feminist and decolonial commitment.
Camille Bleu-Valentin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around the links between transmission, territory and trauma. Coming from a heritage that is both colonial and colonized, she develops projects in contexts far from major centers, seeking to create artistic spaces for communities often excluded from mainstream cultural offerings.
Biography
Born in Paris in 1995, Camille Bleu-Valentin comes from a family heritage combining colonial history and conflict. The descendant of a freed slave from Martinique and a soldier who fought in the Algerian War, she grew up in New Caledonia, where colonial memories are still very much alive. Settling in Nantes, a city with a history linked to the slave trade, she deepened her interest in these stories. Trained at the Beaux-Arts, she took part in an Erasmus exchange program in Turkey and followed several training courses in Sarajevo, focusing on art in a post-conflict context. Her artistic practice questions memory, trauma and historical violence.
Recent exhibitions
| 2025 | Paré !, solo exhibition, Université d’Angers, Cholet, FR Les Failles font corps, group exhibition, Hôtel Mona Bismarck, Paris, FR |
| 2024 | Sous la Surface, Galerie Hors Champ, Saint-Mathurin- Sur- Loire, FR |
| 2023 | EXTRA-HERE, solo exhibition, Galerie Médina, Bamako, MLI |
| 2022 | Between Two Unparallel Lines, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, TWN MIX, group exhibition, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Cholet, FR Art au Centre, solo exhibition, Liège, BE |