Camille Desclerc
she/her
France, 1997
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Thesis: Are You Still There? Thoughts on a dematerializing self
Camille Desclerc is interested in navigating digital territories and the impact it has on our sense of identity. Through playful interventions, Camille explores notions of hyper-stimulation, glitch feminism, and polarizing extremes of emotion triggered by impulses of excess. Such acts of self-preservation have resulted in making time a tangible process. For example, she placed an iPhone in a package and tracked its 25-hour journey through a live stream that recorded the sounds of delivery trucks and postal teams in progress. Another work took the form of a performative gesture in which Camille herself, mimicked the actions and facial expressions of judges from a reality talent show which she slowed down to one minute. And in response to the invasive strategies of advertising and insistent forms of display, she printed found texts through the slow process of letter-pressing onto textiles which hung over clothing racks, and intermittently changed the “headlines” over a few days. In her attempts to claim her own space in these homogenizing environments, Camille wittingly checks in by asking, “Are you still there?”
