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Camillia Langoux est une artiste française née à New York. Elle passe son enfance entre la Suisse et St Barthelémy et étudie à l’Université des Arts à Londres (London College of Communication) d’où elle obtient un diplôme en Photographie
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Camillia Langoux is a french artist born in New York City. She grew up between Switzerland and St Barth. She graduated from the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) where she graduated in Photography.
LE TIMONIER DE LA CHIMERE
Iceland 2009 / Island 2009
"Silence"
There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore- (...)
Edgar Allan Poe
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Le Timonier de la Chimere fait partie d’un projet en cours sur les frontières confondues entre la réalité et la fiction, les contes et la mémoire collective. Cette image est tirée d’un naufrage. Celui du vaisseau d’expédition polaire de Jean-Baptiste Charcot, le « Pourquoi Pas ? » qui coula près de Reykjavik en 1936 et dont seulement un survivant fut rescapé sur un équipage de quarante.
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Le Timonier de la Chimere is part of an ongoing project concerned with the blurred boundaries between fiction and reality, tales and collective memory. This particulr image draws from the shipwreck of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's polar expedition vessel the "Pourquoi Pas?" which sank near Reykjavik in 1936 with only one survivor out of the forty crew members.
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Le Timonier de la Chimere est une lanterne magique du 19ème siècle (peinte sur verre)
projetée sur des vapeurs de gaz sulfurique émanant de la terre,
photographiée avec un appareil 5/4, imprimée à la main, édition de 5.
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Le Timonier de la Chimere, 19th century magic lantern image (painted glass plate)
projected onto sulphuric gas vapours emanating from the earth,
photographed with a 5x4 camera, hand printed, edition of 5
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu /
Remembrance of Things Past
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"Human beings feel attached to their remembered past, for the people, places, and events that we enshrine in memory give structure and definition to the person we think of as our 'self.' If we accept that memory spills over into dreams and imagination, then how do we know what's real and what's not?”
(Elizabeth Loftus)
The choice to use "Autour du Rocher" in St Barth as the location to photograph A la Recherche du Temps Perdu originated as a platform for “memory”.
This old burnt house, perched on the point of Lorient had once been the most legendary nightspot of St Barthelemy. I wanted to reach upon the collective memory of the people who knew the place, while transposing it as a metaphor to my childhood memories. I associated my domestic fires with the fact that Autour du rocher had burnt while I was to young to participate in this seemingly never ending party to create an abstract allegory for a time gone.
Sans titre (Bibliotheque) 60 x 90 cm Edition 5/7
Sans titre (Lapin) 60 x 90 cm Edition 3/7
Sans titre (Rocking chair) 90 x 60 cm Edition 1/7
Sans titre (3 fenêtres) 60 x 90 cm Edition 3/7
Sans titre (Lit Baldaquin) 90 x 60 cm Edition 1/7
Sans titre (Cheval de bois) 60 x 90 cm Edition 2/7
Sans titre (Frigo) 90 x 60 cm Edition 1/7
Sans titre (Maison de poupee) 60 x 90 cm Edition 1/7