Five Hundred Years Ago

Martinique, France

2021

Pierre Roy-Camille

Rubis Mécénat launched a call for projects in 2019 to invest the industrial site of the Société Anonyme de la Raffinerie des Antilles (SARA) in Le Lamentin, Martinique. The winning artist, Pierre Roy-Camille, created the mural Five Hundred Years Ago.

The artist chose to express his vision on more than 200 square meters of a storage tank of the Société Anonyme de la Raffinerie des Antilles: “The SARA is a unique site in Martinique, in its location, its utility and its architecture. It can be said that it is a landmark of Martinique, whose tanks are the icons. It seems important to me to offer to this site, through this project, a representation at the height of what they mean for the island. The obvious thing to do is to associate to these iconic tanks that embody the refinery and its history, another icon, both the witness and the ambassador of Martinique: the palm tree.”

Artwork visible since 2021
La SARA, Le Lamentin, Martinique, France

Pierre Roy-Camille

Pierre Roy-Camille is a French artist born in Martinique in 1979, trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He now lives and works in Paris. He develops an abundant and multifaceted work that combines drawing, painting, engraving, silkscreen printing, digital art, video, mural painting.

The personal history of the artist, shared between Paris and Martinique, brings out in his work a tropical world, half naturalistic, half fantasy, where nature rules. In 2014, the Clément foundation in Martinique organizes a solo exhibition entitled “Surnaturels”. In 2015, he presents the exhibition “Painting is the pattern” at the Jules Maeght Gallery in San Francisco, USA. In 2016, his work is proposed by the Maeght gallery in Paris under the title “Le Souvenir avec le crépuscule”