East, London
Boris Camaca
Locomotion (The Unfinished Path) II
NicolettiNicoletti is delighted to present Locomotion (The Unfinished Path) II, the second solo exhibition by French artist Boris Camaca at the gallery. Continuing the cycle of works Camaca developed for his first institutional solo exhibition, held at Plato, Ostrava, CZ (2025–26), Locomotion (The Unfinished Path) II features a series of double-sided photographs that reflect on the act of capturing movement and the ethical and formal implications of image-making. Throughout the exhibition, Camaca explores photography as both a technical system and a space of interplay between control and contingency. For him, the work begins less with the subject than the machine: a system of lenses, sensors, timings, and adjustments through which images are produced. Negotiating the interaction between human intention and machine logic, Camaca’s work foregrounds the generative dimension of technique – a space of calibrated certainty in which he produces what might be called, in reference to Paul Auster, a “music of chance”. Within this framework, movement operates as both formal and critical principle. Many of the images depict bodies in motion – walking, running, shifting –, an interest Camaca relates to his study of chronophotographic experiments such as those of Eadweard Muybridge. Here, however, the artist departs from any analytical deconstruction of movement – rather than treating the image as a form of capture, his work considers the recording of physical gestures as an ethical operation, one that entails participation from the subject. In so doing, Camaca explores photography as a shared process in which movement functions as a form of consent and shared of the image – whether the subject is a drone, a cat or a fashion model. Boris Camaca (b. 1987, France) lives and works in Paris, FR. His solo and duo exhibitions include Plato, Ostrava, CZ, (2026); Art-o-rama, art fair with Nicoletti (duo exhibition with Loreum), Marseille, FR (2023); Voiture14, Marseille, FR (2022); and Room of Solitude, Nicoletti, 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 Nicoletti, Miami, US (2019). In 2021, he coproduced 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.