Etienne Chambaud

Etienne Chambaud

BornNationalityBased In
1980FrenchParis
Biography

Etienne Chambaud works with a plethora of artistic mediums, shifting between sculpture, photography, sound, installation and collage to better understand the way in which we perceive objects or ideas. Frames and cages frequently surface as elastic aesthetic motifs within his projects. Animals are filmed in captivity, wooden frames dwarf small photographs and atlas’s are cut and collaged, troubling their usual boundaries and placements. Chambuad’s film La Nuit Suave (2014) typifies his interest in epistemology. The piece investigates how specific sites have influenced the modern gaze of nature, dissecting the role of spaces such as natural history museums and zoos. Both places which physically and conceptually contain beings and knowledge. Each body of work is developed over prolonged periods of research, and each installation then takes shape according to the fluctuations within Chambuad’s findings. Inventive and spatially arresting, Chambuad’s installations have an undoubtable Dadaist sentiment, as they force audiences to confront their own associations through bizarre juxtapositions and material experimentations. ...

Selected Artworks
∩ (Fallow Deer Fawn)
Etienne Chambaud
∩ (Fallow Deer Fawn), 2018
80 x 110 x 7cm
∩ (Lion Tamarins)
Etienne Chambaud
∩ (Lion Tamarins), 2018
80 x 110 x 7cm
Nameless
Etienne Chambaud
Nameless, 2013
140 x 105 x 2cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
46 x 36 x 7.3cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
31 x 27 x 4.7cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
46 x 35.5 x 4.5cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
40 x 30.5 x 5.4cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
37 x 31 x 5.6cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
36 x 31 x 5.7cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
36 x 31 x 6cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
36 x 27 x 5.1cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
48.5 x 37.5 x 6.6cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
45 x 36 x 7.3cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2024
33 x 28 x 4.6cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2023
31 x 26 x 6.6cm
Uncreature
Etienne Chambaud
Uncreature, 2023
73 x 53.1 x 6.1cm
Zebroid
Etienne Chambaud
Zebroid, 2024
33 x 29 x 41cm
Mirror
Etienne Chambaud
Mirror, 2025
32 x 31 x 9cm
Mirror
Etienne Chambaud
Mirror, 2025
31 x 31 x 11cm
Mirror
Etienne Chambaud
Mirror, 2025
49 x 44 x 8.5cm
Gallery Representation
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