Camille Meisner is a French, London based freelance photographer and visual artist, educated at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL and The Royal College of Art. She uses photography, installation, moving images and audio to create her artwork.
Her practice questions the status of women in society and focuses on reality and how it is perceived by herself and others. She explores the female gaze and how she can apply it to her work and how to better represent women, their lives, experiences, concerns and anxiety.
Projects
- FADEFade reflects on “the moment” of internal turmoil when anxiety surfaces inside someone but isn’t necessarily visible to others. It focuses on young women suffering from anxiety and how they cope with today. This project inspired from Yayoi Kusama’s work aims to help the stigma and open the dialogue around young women suffering from mental health issues. The audio is a mixtape of all the women in the photographs speaking of their anxiety in their mother’s tongues. Fade, 2022 Thin toile de jute
- EERIE RELIEFEerie Relief is a series of portraits of women taken in a milk bath to create this effect of “body parts stuck in concrete”. This project delves into mental illness and the effects of its treatment on the body influenced by my own experience. The medication feels like a relief as much as it feels like it takes away some of our senses and feelings, leaving the person in a drowsy, almost uncanny state. In collaboration with Aishah Mendonca
- Mare NostrumMare Nostrum explores the experience of my grandmother during World War II as a French Resistant and more specifically her 4 years of imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp as a political prisoner and her silence on her experience. This project reflects on the importance of the «devoir de memoire» (duty of memory) but also on the lack of recognition for the women who fought during the war. My grandmother kept silent because she realised that people who didn’t go through the concentration
Work history
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Photographer(for myself)
London, United KingdomFreelance
Education
Masters of ArtRoyal College of Art
London, United Kingdom
Graduate DiplomaRoyal College of Art
- London, United Kingdom
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