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.