Camille Cargill
Saidiya Hartman writes in her article Venus in Two Acts, that working with trauma involves “a willingness to look into the open casket”. This begs the question “do the possibilities [of doing so] outweigh the dangers of looking..?” When working with trauma “how does one revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence?”
I am working with an trauma-informed approach to withholding in the practice of art that is motivated by care, and compassion, and a desire to make working with pain less painful. Using a background in printmaking and photography emboldened by spatial practice and lighting, I conjure emotional landscapes that embody the corporeal and cerebral traces of trauma that occur as after-image.
Camille Cargill, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Camille Cargill, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Camille Cargill. Component Image of If these walls could talk, Digitally manipulated 35mm film photograph, 2023
Camille Cargill, Component Image of If these walls could talk,, Digitally manipulated 35mm film photograph, 2023.
Camille Cargill, Gates of Hell for Faces of Capital Masterclass, Vinyl, acrylic sheet, light, tripod, wire & gripples, 2023.
Camille Cargill, Behind closed doors, Vinyl, acrylic sheet, light, tripod, wire, gripples, photopolymer print & frame, 2023.
Camille Cargill, If these walls could talk (Install View), Screen prints on silk, photopolymer print on fine art paper, frame, steel, bolts, screws, wire, fastenings, velcro, wood, magnets, acrylic sheets, tape, zip ties, vinyl, cables, ETC ColorSource CYC light and system. Dimensions variable, at times personally relevant to artist. 2023.
Camille Cargill, If these walls could talk (Install View), Screen prints on silk, photopolymer print on fine art paper, frame, steel, bolts, screws, wire, fastenings, velcro, wood, magnets, acrylic sheets, tape, zip ties, vinyl, cables, ETC ColorSource CYC light and system. Dimensions variable, at times personally relevant to artist. 2023.
Camille Cargill, If these walls could talk (Install View), Screen prints on silk, photopolymer print on fine art paper, frame, steel, bolts, screws, wire, fastenings, velcro, wood, magnets, acrylic sheets, tape, zip ties, vinyl, cables, ETC ColorSource CYC light and system. Dimensions variable, at times personally relevant to artist. 2023.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne