Camille Roquet

Lives and works in Paris, France

Artist statement

My practice begins with images that pass between people: personal photographs, screenshots and fragments found online. Many were made for quick circulation and can disappear just as quickly. I collect and transform them into prints, reliefs, sculpture and video, asking what remains of an image when it is given a body. I often convert source images into depth maps, grayscale images that estimate distance from a camera. This process removes detail and leaves silhouettes, gestures and uncertain surfaces. I use those maps to make 3D prints, cast metal and risographs. Each material slows the image down differently. A pewter relief holds the irregularities of sand casting, while a misregistered print retains the instability of its digital source. I think of this work as an archaeology of digital intimacy. The images I use carry memories and desires, but also the conditions in which they were made, shared and received. In Rememblur, a translucent printed relief veils a screen of videos generated from personal photographs, allowing memory to appear through distortion. In Stainless, intimate images become small metal reliefs that can be melted and recast. These transformations leave the images' gaps and material dependencies visible. For me, an image is also a relation between the people who make, send and receive it.

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