ACTS OF ATTENTIONS • Visual Blueprints of Body, Memory and Place
Camilla Howalt - London-trained & Malmö-based artist
My practice revolves around mark making as an examination of surface - front, back, and in-between - through layering, photographic transfers, merging, piercing, scratching, winding, burning, drilling, and knotting. I create layered, textured works that unfold as poetic blueprints - structures guiding mnemonic explorations of memory, perception, and (be-)longing.
The body, fragmented and penetrated from both inside and outside, becomes both subject and container - a vessel of identity shaped and unshaped by pain, memory, and perception. By tearing abstract bodies apart and reassembling them into patterns - sometimes too neat - I expose the tension between rupture and order.
Each work holds its own architecture, weaving material, composition, and emotion into contemplative visual maps of mind, body, and place. They open onto liminal states - where memory estranges the familiar, and negative capability holds space for uncertainty and the unresolvable.
What if the act of making is not production but listening? Read more → IN/EX HIBITION
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STRANGE FRUIT IN A GLIMPSE
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STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm
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This practice stays close to the making — where sensuality, introspection, and rupture meet through mark making. Each piece is its own topographical mapping: an intimate space where meaning can remain unfinished, and something unnamed might surface.
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Camilla
There are moments in the studio when the work seems to move on its own. That which through the artist emerges as raw and magnetic - is perhaps even beautiful but also deeply unsettling and at times terrifying. Camilla Howalt reflects on the panic, shame, fear of intimacy and exhilaration that arise when creativity transcends control, revealing that the true practice lies in showing up and embracing the presence of the work itself.