Amélie Scotta

°1983, born in Nantes (F), lives en works in Brussels (B).

About the artist

Amélie Scotta is a visual artist, with degrees in Art from La Cambre in Brussels and Design from HEAR in Strasbourg. She has been recognized with various awards and artistic residencies, including the Prix Cocof, Prix Carré sur Seine, and residencies at the Casa de Velázquez, Cité Internationale des Arts and Boghossian Foundation. Scotta regularly exhibits her work in France, Belgium and internationally.

Her artistic practice explores architecture in all its forms, from monumental structures like the Jeddah Tower, the abandonned factories of Roubaix, and Rio’s stadiums to Brussel’s scaffolding or medieval recluses. Through her art, she investigates how human beings both inabits and build their environments. While her work often begins with drawing, it extends to sculpture and photography, using construction as a means to reflect on the human experience.

CADMIUM is a series of four photolithographs created in 2025 at Bruno Robbe’s studio, based on an original drawing by Amélie Scotta.
The edition was produced in collaboration between the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery and Éditions Bruno Robbe, and was exhibited at the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée in La Louvière in 2025.

The title of the series comes from the name of the colour — a slightly orange-toned red — chosen by the artist and the printer for its vibrancy, reminiscent of Venetian Renaissance pigments.

Drawn in pencil, the original work meticulously depicts every fold of a draped tarpaulin, with a certain sense of obsession. It continues Scotta’s recent explorations, where she moves away from purely architectural structures to approach landscape and urban space in a more sensory manner.

Through her close observation of construction sites and urban façades — details that at times verge on abstraction — the artist creates a direct connection with the raw matter of our built environments, and with everything that both reveals and conceals our collective and intimate spaces.