QuickSnap, 2025
installation
Through the installation QuickSnap, Camille Poitevin questions the complexity of our relationship to images in a world saturated with immediacy. Inspired by advertising devices, the artist censors the screen image by creating a filter made up of thousands of lenses extracted from used disposable cameras, collected from various photographic laboratories in Belgium. The accumulation of lenses and electronic waste - the flashes from disposable cameras - reinforces the idea of abundance and obsolescence. The artist thus raises the value attributed to objects and images in a society where excess becomes commonplace, drowned in the mass. The work invites us to take a critical pause, a moment of reflection on the ephemeral and the invisible, on what is seen and what remains hidden, while at the same time questioning the durability of that which, however, quickly dissolves.
Components of used disposable cameras (flashes and lenses)
Exhibition Art au Centre #15, Rue Hors Chateau 40, Liège, Belgium, 2025.
installation
Through the installation QuickSnap, Camille Poitevin questions the complexity of our relationship to images in a world saturated with immediacy. Inspired by advertising devices, the artist censors the screen image by creating a filter made up of thousands of lenses extracted from used disposable cameras, collected from various photographic laboratories in Belgium. The accumulation of lenses and electronic waste - the flashes from disposable cameras - reinforces the idea of abundance and obsolescence. The artist thus raises the value attributed to objects and images in a society where excess becomes commonplace, drowned in the mass. The work invites us to take a critical pause, a moment of reflection on the ephemeral and the invisible, on what is seen and what remains hidden, while at the same time questioning the durability of that which, however, quickly dissolves.
Components of used disposable cameras (flashes and lenses)
Exhibition Art au Centre #15, Rue Hors Chateau 40, Liège, Belgium, 2025.
récit glissant, 2022
video installation (4 screens)
9 minute loop
Inspired by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid life, in which he describes our society as a precarious world full of uncertainty that is directed by hypercapitalist consumerism, Camille Poitevin created sculptures, photographs, and video installations that imagine the daily experience of such a liquid world. In her video installation, the small rituals that make up our daily habits have become liquified. The scenes are played out by herself and represent four rooms, which show four versions of her living daily life. The screens act as surveillance screens, turning the viewer into a confused voyeur. The mise-en-scène that Camille creates represents an imaginary past, but also a future.
Exhibition Currents#10 Choose your own story, Marres Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2023.
video installation (4 screens)
9 minute loop
Inspired by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid life, in which he describes our society as a precarious world full of uncertainty that is directed by hypercapitalist consumerism, Camille Poitevin created sculptures, photographs, and video installations that imagine the daily experience of such a liquid world. In her video installation, the small rituals that make up our daily habits have become liquified. The scenes are played out by herself and represent four rooms, which show four versions of her living daily life. The screens act as surveillance screens, turning the viewer into a confused voyeur. The mise-en-scène that Camille creates represents an imaginary past, but also a future.
Exhibition Currents#10 Choose your own story, Marres Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2023.
L’interstice, 2022
photography
inkjet print, 50 x 65 cm
Exhibition Tell Me Louder, HISK Gosset Site, Brussels, Belgium, 2022.
photography
inkjet print, 50 x 65 cm
Exhibition Tell Me Louder, HISK Gosset Site, Brussels, Belgium, 2022.
Femme fontaine, 2023
mapping sculpture
The exhibition plunges us into the world of a wedding party about to get into full swing. We'll recognize the codes, through a series of objects identified as symbols of celebration and love. Moments of collective joy. But here again, Camille plays with our perceptions and sends our reference points tumbling.
Dimensions : 70cm height
Exhibition 24h à vie, Salon des Ateliers Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, 2023.
mapping sculpture
The exhibition plunges us into the world of a wedding party about to get into full swing. We'll recognize the codes, through a series of objects identified as symbols of celebration and love. Moments of collective joy. But here again, Camille plays with our perceptions and sends our reference points tumbling.
Dimensions : 70cm height
Exhibition 24h à vie, Salon des Ateliers Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, 2023.