States of an Eating Self, 2025
photographic series
In a world obsessed with control and performance, Camille Poitevin invites us to slow down and reconnect with a fundamental gesture: eating. Through her lens, this everyday act becomes a moment of intimacy, introspection, and human connection.
The artist subverts the conventions of studio photography: while the frame is carefully composed, the staging gives way to a lived, shared moment. The camera freely captures micro-expressions, suspended gestures, and states of presence. Women and gender-minoritized people are invited to take part in this collective yet deeply personal experience.
States of an Eating Self focuses on what escapes controlled imagery. By rejecting the aesthetics of perfection, the series opens a space to reinhabit the body : a space where the inner self can emerge. Eating becomes an act of attention, a site of resistance to the norms that shape our desires and appearances.
1. Exhibition tiff 2025 - Emerging Belgian Photography, 28.06.25 - 28.09.25 © FOMU/We Document Art.
2. Exhibition Art Contest 2025, Botanique Museum, Brussels, BE, 2025.
photographic series
In a world obsessed with control and performance, Camille Poitevin invites us to slow down and reconnect with a fundamental gesture: eating. Through her lens, this everyday act becomes a moment of intimacy, introspection, and human connection.
The artist subverts the conventions of studio photography: while the frame is carefully composed, the staging gives way to a lived, shared moment. The camera freely captures micro-expressions, suspended gestures, and states of presence. Women and gender-minoritized people are invited to take part in this collective yet deeply personal experience.
States of an Eating Self focuses on what escapes controlled imagery. By rejecting the aesthetics of perfection, the series opens a space to reinhabit the body : a space where the inner self can emerge. Eating becomes an act of attention, a site of resistance to the norms that shape our desires and appearances.
1. Exhibition tiff 2025 - Emerging Belgian Photography, 28.06.25 - 28.09.25 © FOMU/We Document Art.
2. Exhibition Art Contest 2025, Botanique Museum, Brussels, BE, 2025.
Picture Element, 2025
video installation
Picture Element deliberately slows the circulation of images. Lenses salvaged from used disposable cameras, placed in front of a video of mouths eating, transform the screen into an unstable, hypnotic optical surface. The image only reveals itself through the viewer’s movement and the time they are willing to grant it. Presented like a storefront advertising screen, the installation diverts a device intrinsic to the attention economy: the mouths, associated with bodies historically monitored, disciplined, and sexualized, are neither offered nor consumable. Filtered and slowed down, they elude regimes of visibility that demand clear, fast, and immediately available images.
Components of used disposable cameras (lenses)
Exhibition tiff 2025 - Emerging Belgian Photography, 28.06.25 - 28.09.25
video installation
Picture Element deliberately slows the circulation of images. Lenses salvaged from used disposable cameras, placed in front of a video of mouths eating, transform the screen into an unstable, hypnotic optical surface. The image only reveals itself through the viewer’s movement and the time they are willing to grant it. Presented like a storefront advertising screen, the installation diverts a device intrinsic to the attention economy: the mouths, associated with bodies historically monitored, disciplined, and sexualized, are neither offered nor consumable. Filtered and slowed down, they elude regimes of visibility that demand clear, fast, and immediately available images.
Components of used disposable cameras (lenses)
Exhibition tiff 2025 - Emerging Belgian Photography, 28.06.25 - 28.09.25
Welcome to Our Table, 2025
participative performance
in collaboration with Kadia Doumbouya & Déborah Claire
Welcome to Our Table is built around a shared meal. The table is open to women and gender-minoritized people who feel concerned by the invitation. Through a simple, lightly mediated protocol, participants eat together while being witnessed by an audience. The performance frames eating as a collective and political act, where gestures and conversations, create a space of care, visibility, and shared presence. The performance becomes then an installation with the remaining table of the meal and its recording playing in loop in the space.
Pictures of Welcome to Our Table, pamphlet & visual, Rode Zaal, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL, 2025.
participative performance
in collaboration with Kadia Doumbouya & Déborah Claire
Welcome to Our Table is built around a shared meal. The table is open to women and gender-minoritized people who feel concerned by the invitation. Through a simple, lightly mediated protocol, participants eat together while being witnessed by an audience. The performance frames eating as a collective and political act, where gestures and conversations, create a space of care, visibility, and shared presence. The performance becomes then an installation with the remaining table of the meal and its recording playing in loop in the space.
Pictures of Welcome to Our Table, pamphlet & visual, Rode Zaal, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL, 2025.
QuickSnap, 2025
installation
The in-situ installation QuickSnap reveals the complexity of our relationship to visual culture in a world saturated with immediacy. Thousands of flashes, salvaged from disposable cameras collected from various photographic laboratories in Belgium, fill a storefront window in Liège (Art Au Centre), creating a mass that evokes both abundance and obsolescence. The work highlights how value is lost in a society drowned in excess.
Components of used disposable cameras (flashes and lenses)
Exhibition Art au Centre #15, Rue Hors Chateau 40, Liège, Belgium, 2025.
installation
The in-situ installation QuickSnap reveals the complexity of our relationship to visual culture in a world saturated with immediacy. Thousands of flashes, salvaged from disposable cameras collected from various photographic laboratories in Belgium, fill a storefront window in Liège (Art Au Centre), creating a mass that evokes both abundance and obsolescence. The work highlights how value is lost in a society drowned in excess.
Components of used disposable cameras (flashes and lenses)
Exhibition Art au Centre #15, Rue Hors Chateau 40, Liège, Belgium, 2025.