If these walls could talk

Graduate Exhibition
Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne | 2023

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.

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.

To enquire about an available work or to request more information, please find contact details below -

camillecargill@gmail.com.