Sacha Cambier is a Belgian artist whose intricate painting practice bridges medieval visual tradition with contemporary environmental unease. Working primarily on smooth wood panels, his technique evokes the tactile precision of devotional art objects—polyptychs, altarpieces, and illuminated manuscripts—while reconfiguring them through a distinctly modern, illustrative language. His compositions unfold like coded narratives, filled with symbolism, layered scenes, and rich allegorical detail.
Influenced by Byzantine icons, Flemish Primitives, Romanticism, and Gothic painting, Cambier creates highly detailed pictorial worlds where storytelling, ornament, and technique intersect. Echoes of Bosch, Dürer, Doré, Cranach, and Van Eyck reverberate in his works, not as homage, but as historical frameworks repurposed to comment on the present. Gilded surfaces and precise contrasts of light and shadow add a luminous depth, heightening both the visual appeal and the sense of mystery.
Yet beneath their ornamental beauty, his paintings carry a potent sense of contemporary anxiety. Edenic landscapes—reminiscent of the Marseille coastline or Alpine valleys—are interrupted by garbage bags, freeways, and industrial sprawl. Nature appears simultaneously reverent and ravaged. This tension gives rise to a feeling of solastalgia—a quiet grief for a world altered by human impact.
Cambier graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022 and from La Cambre, Brussels in 2020. His work has been shown at the 68th Salon de Montrouge (2025), Beaux-Arts de Paris (2022), Château de Vincennes (2022), and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris (2020). ...
Established in Paris since 2010, mor charpentier represents both emerging and well-established artists whose conceptual practices are anchored in social realities, history and the politics of contrasting geographic regions. By promoting international practices, the gallery aims to broaden the knowledge of crucial debates of the present. A significant inaugural show with Colombian master, Oscar Muñoz, fulfilled a void in the French artistic scene by broadening the spectrum of origins, subjects and identities in the art market. Ever since, a growing number of major international artists have joined the gallery. Coming from different generations and global backgrounds, they all share a commitment to either political, feminist, post-colonial, queer or human rights causes. Amongst them are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Teresa Margolles, Chen Ching-Yuan, Liliana Porter, Bouchra Khalili, Carlos Motta, Hajra Waheed, and more. Equal gender representation and diversity is also part of the gallery goals, with half of the represented artists being women. In 2021 mor charpentier opened a second exhibition space in Bogotá. This expansion was driven to expand the reach of the gallery program to new publics and encourage artists to explore new territories. It consolidated a long-term bond with the Latin American art scene and the international projection of the gallery. ...
