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  • View of “Camille Blatrix,” 2016. From left: Whast, 2016; Soul, 2016. Photo: John White.

    View of “Camille Blatrix,” 2016. From left: Whast, 2016; Soul, 2016. Photo: John White.

    Camille Blatrix

    CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

    Camille Blatrix’s equivocal objects seem borne from some familiar future—a yet-to-arrive moment about which we are already inexplicably melancholic. They recall the technological effluences of a bygone era: phone booths, ticket kiosks, radios, speakers, and related apparatuses intended to streamline transmission and transformation. And the works do travel, if only via the ahistorical narratives they drum up in their viewer. A font might recall the logo of a long-obsolete brand from one’s childhood, or a curve the Art Nouveau brooch worn by one’s grandmother. Often Blatrix’s works appear to

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