The sexually ambivalent sensibility that suffuses his environments, installations, and performances seduces the viewer into reflection and reverie. Visually rich and precisely observed, the objects and images he designs, makes, and gathers from elsewhere propose connections, set up oppositions, and trace narratives in a dense play of puzzle, metaphor, and interpretative possibility.
Often described as an 'artist's artist,' Chaimowicz was responsible for pioneering installation art long before the term 'immersive' became a press release cliché.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in postwar Paris in 1946, the son of a Polish Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother. The family lived in Montparnasse until Chaimowicz was eight, when they decamped for England and the suburban town of Stevenage.
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