Camille Dumond

Camille Dumond lives and works in Geneva, (CH).

Camille Dumond’s projects question the occupation of territories and its representations. She takes the process of inversion as a work method. Her work evokes one after the other a workplace, a garden, a park, an exhibition, a bar, a place of filming of film, sometimes fictitious, that she speaks about through the realization of objects or stories which transforms or reproduce it. She is interested in the protagonists of these places, in the ideology linked to the fabrication of endemic objects. Her practice includes films, sculptures, installations, events. She performs mainly by the prism of the camera, and is interested in transforming the exhibition space as a place of collective life, like a film set. She recently studies stand-up comedy texts, in order to treat it outside of the field of entertainment. She has just finished her first short film People’s Park (2017), a 9-minute experimental fiction whose scenario takes its distant roots in the creation of the eponymous park in 1969 in Berkeley, California. The film knows several broadcast formats, including a long version and a loop version.

Camille Dumond studied at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, then at HEAD Genève, where she graduated in the work.master 2014. In 2015, she had her first solo exhibition at Quark, Geneva (as recipient of the Quark prize 2015), and took part to the exhibition of the laureates of the Geneva city prize at Geneva’s Centre d’Art Contemporain. She won the award Bourses Déliées from the FCAC (Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain) and in 2016 showned an early version of her project People’s Park at Halle Nord in Geneva (for which she is also releasing a publication). She has been invited to several projects and exhibitions such as Labor Zero Labor in Triangle France, Motion and Infinite Lawns in Geneva, and was artist in residence at Mains d’Oeuvres in Saint-Ouen right before her residency at Triangle.