Bertrand Cavalier (born in France, lives and works in Brussels) has developed a practice that originated in photography and now extends to sculpture, installation, drawing, and video. His work explores ordinary forms in the urban and architectural environment—constrained objects, normative structures, functional devices—which he approaches as indicators of power dynamics and underlying tensions.

Through tight framing, minimalist volumes, and industrial materials, he develops an aesthetic of pressure, constriction, and friction. His work has been published by Fw:Books (NL, 2020) and Spector Books (DE, 2024). He is the winner of the City of Brussels Prize – Centrale for Contemporary Art (BE, 2025) and has exhibited at FOMU (Antwerp, BE), Photoforum Pasquart (Biel, CH), BIP – Biennale de l’Image Possible (Liège, BE), and FRAC Centre-Val de Loire (Orléans, FR). He received the Sébastien van der Straten Fund Award (2019) and was artist-in-residence at Artwell Amsterdam (NL, 2021) and the Cité internationale des arts (Paris, FR, 2023). His work has been published in Artpress (FR), Mouvement (FR), Camera Austria (AT), and l’art même (BE).