ACTS OF ATTENTIONS • Visual Blueprints of Memory and Place

Camilla Howalt - London-trained & Malmö-based artist


I create layered, textured works in painting, textiles, and photography. These unfold as poetic blueprints - self-developed structures guiding mnemonic explorations of memory, perception, and (be-)longing.

Each piece holds its own architecture, weaving material, composition, and emotion into contemplative visual maps of mind, body, and place.

What if the act of making is not production but listening? Read more → POIESIS

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Thank you for visiting • I look forward to sharing more with you.

Camilla Howalt

STRANGE FRUIT IN A GLIMPSE

  • STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

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MEET THE ARTIST & THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE WORK •

Dear visitor,

Thank you for being here.

What you’ll find here is a practice of traces - evolving blueprints of perception and presence. My work unfolds through poiesis: a process of listening, tracing, and making. Colour, texture, and composition come together not to explain, but to hold space for what’s unfolding - what’s near, what’s disappearing.

I move through inner and outer architectural landscapes - portraits of experience - with materials that speak back: pigment, thread, fabric, photographic layers. These surfaces hold memory and sensation in tension - mapping states of perception, unravelling impressions, knotting complexity into tactile form.

This practice is about staying close to the weave - where sensuality, introspection, and rupture meet. Each piece is its own topographical mapping: an intimate space where meaning can remain unfinished, and something unnamed might begin to surface.

If you’re curious to go deeper, I’ve written more about my process in the [Artist Statement & Poiesis].

Warmly,
Camilla

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