Mimicking recalls
Mimicking recalls » embark on a visual exploration through the interplay of digital paintings and installations. This collection delves into the feelings of derealisation, utilizing the visual language of Signs, Strength, and Metaphysical pondering to create a dissociated experience. Each piece within this exhibition serves a Social Realism representation, capturing the mundane and the political in a dance of colors and meanings. It want to evoke a visceral response, a connection between the viewer and the inherent aspect of the subject matter. The artworks become conduits for introspection, inviting the audience to contemplate the underlying currents of our shared human experience.
The rotten smell is you groupshow
Participating artists: Nikola Balberčáková / Markéta Garai / Sophia Giovannitti / Paula Gogola / Đejmi Hadrović / Pennie Key / Anastasija Pavić / Camille Soulat
Curated by: Jelisaveta Rapaić
Curated by: Jelisaveta Rapaić
It’s a public secret we feminists have neglected a rotting issue, it lives in the same house we built, under the roof we erected, inside the walls we constructed. It spreads as a dormant illness, a psycho-somatic past lurking for the next big kill, gatekeeping the values which were laid in a stream of care, but the creek has now turned to stone. The smell is pungent, encapsulating and overpowering, a rich, juicy, leaky fruit turned to dust and neglect. It sat in the room for a while, but it was easier to open the window when air needed to be cleared, as if help would come from outside.
The ephemeral space created here houses different experiences which are causing tensions in the feminist household; viewing the movement as a family, with multiple generations living under the same roof by default. And a family should be united, chosen; through thick and thin, family sticks together, yet the reality behind closed doors is not always so peachy. These generational gaps can be seen through the waves of the movement, most notably, the often present rift between the second and third wave “elders’’ and the fourth wavers. The staging of this open house isn’t meant as an all encompassing study, nor of the fourth wave, but rather to highlight and bring back into a safe conversation these topics which are causing the most interior turmoil. Often publicly appropriated by the right, against one of our own, with the help of another one of our own. Sex work, transness and hyperfemininity, the positions on which the movement fails to stand united, fails its own offspring.
The rotten smell is you begs to address the you in the equation; and while the question of the you is more useful than answering whether the you itself is addressed to the viewer, to their positionality, or some outside element. It is a starting point and a navigational tool through the intricate web of histories, relations, power plays, politics, bodies, economies, emotions, identities, false care systems and interdependencies. The rotten smell is you demands a self-check in the first step taken in this space, the game of detecting the bad feminist in oneself. The rotten is the neglected, the unaddressed which assumes, which overlooks, or which particles will stick to the walls of your lungs, way past the point of exposure.
Thanks god, they taking us for jesters
“Thank God They’re Taking Us for Jesters”
Directed by Camille Soulat
3D animation by Sophie Mil
Post-production Camille Soulat
Music by Bug Bus Piano
Track : Beloved Musician Bug Bus Piano Tragically Explodes During Live Performance
Track : By-Products From Living
Video piece on view at 3110 Gallery on Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles
For PURE TASTE group show and curated by Xav Langton
Produced by Camille Jamet and Silent Sisters
Suburbcel
Suburcel, the title of her first solo exhibition with Ballon Rouge, is an invented term which corresponds to the contraction of the term "Suburb" and the word "Incel;" the word implies a hatred of coming from the suburbs, from the province, from housing estates - far from where everything seems to be happening. It echoes greediness and exclusion. Life happens elsewhere. “In between states where nothing happens” (2023) is a small bench; it’s an in-between state where you always wait for an upcoming change, a bus, a date, as hours pass. It’s a metaphor, a land of hope and boredom, of waiting.
On the back of the bench, eyes morph into a Skyline view. On the wall beside it is a print on aluminum titled “Subdivision, vision continues to divide” (2023). The windows of the subdivision lot shine bright when the sun goes down. If the grass is always greener on the other side, behind the glass it always seems warmer. Clothes and accessories are shiny artifacts, vindictive slogans on a bright color shirt, jeans, New York view imprinted in jersey fabric caught in shiny plastic resin. The clothing implies a body. Our clothes are our personality, our performance.
Lifting Hauls is a trend on tumblr whereby people steal 50 eyeshadow palettes from a store, for example. It’s a one time picture that makes some people jealous. Big flashy palettes, MK and LV bags - things you don’t actually need. It’s about the desire to be bigger and live bigger. It’s about appearances.
Soulat’s Suburbcel is about the feeling of life happening elsewhere, about rurality, childhood, avatars, escapism, nepotism, and fantasy, all entwined with our way of socializing on and off of social media and the way we live our lives accordingly.
What cannot be said will be wept
Regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge begun.