Camille Lemille
Studio Minckelers
Periode: 01.01.2025—…
Camille Lemille grew up in Toulouse and has lived in Belgium for over 10 years.
She showed her work at Iselp (BE), Botanique (BE), Hectolitre (BE), Kanal Centre Pompidou (BE), BIP Liège (BE), Boverie (BE), Tour à Plomb (BE), Ateliers Mommen (BE), Hôtel Experimenta (FR) and AIE (GR).
Since 2021, she has been teaching at the ArBA-EsA in Brussels, where she is part of the teaching team for the Exhibition Practices Master’s programme.
In 2022, she has been selected for the Young Curator Programme at the Belgian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, where she started an ongoing research project on the working conditions of the Biennale’s invisible workers. In the continuation of this work, she is a member of the administrative council of FAP (Fédération Arts Plastiques). She is also engaged in the cultural space “Cercle du Laveu” in Liège, where she takes part in the cinema programmation.
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Camille Lemille
Camille Lemille’s work focuses primarily on performance, sound and publishing, but also touches on a broad range of media, including screen printing, video and installation.
Her work starts from the context that surrounds her, and particularly sensitive to the political and social issues that directly affect our daily lives:How do we sleep? What are our conditions of work? Do we have access to housing?
The artist approaches these issues from a sociological perspective, reusing texts and writing from different registers. These texts can be read by a performer, screen-printed onto objects, become a transcription for a book, or a voice for a piece of sound art.
Camille collects texts omnivorously (from public space, the internet, interviews, news media, sms, administration…), before using them in her compositions. The textual material often is based on elements of language that seem to be pertinent to our daily lives, and that contain an absurd or poetic richness: an Amazon comment for a mattress in a performance entitled ‘Dodo Stamp’, the thoughts of waitresses working in a wine bar in ‘Paroles de Serveuses’, administrative messages from the city of Liège mixed with words from the residents of Detroit (US) in the installation ‘Storm warning’.
Camille Lemille works with words as materials, in their sonority, writing, orality and musicality. Collaborating with other practices, she invites artists from theatre to music, dance to the visual arts to collaborate on her research. She built the project‘Instructions to sweat, between digital art and performance’ with the Paris-based visual artist Max Blotas.