Camilla Wills
Camilla Wills was born in 1985 and lives and works in the United Kingdom.
Camilla Wills writes and works with video and print technologies. This year, she is part of the curatorial team at Treize (Paris) with Laetitia Paviani and Carl Phelipot. Their program is Baby Doc presents, which addresses cryptocurrencies, dripping with themes of distribution, family life, growth, stress, and what passes through the skin.
Considering the port as both a limit and a passage, where the state of transit and migration submits to a form or a neurological strip. When we travel, there is always the possibility of a slip in identity. The port is a place where an imagined community, that of the nation, is complemented by all the incidental meetings of commerce. Perhaps the port and the Mediterranean Sea can be seen as non-places, protean forms for identity experiences. I would actively seek details and tensions where disembodied economic terms—inflation and trade deficits, or Marxist concepts of alienation and abstraction—have a specific visible effect on bodies and sites.
Recently, her work was shown in My Vocabulary Did This To Me at South London Gallery, London, Voice ~ Creature of Transition, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance… and the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and Bard Girls Can Fly, White Flag Projects, St. Louis (2014). In spring 2015, she will publish Love Your Parasites in collaboration with Paraguay Press, a book freely focused on motifs, survivalism, unregulated circulation, and distribution operations. She edited the essay book I’m Your Fan by Moyra Davey (co-published with Camden Arts Centre, 2014); and from 2012 to 2014, she worked for Book Works in London.
