Lauren G Camps

Lauren G. CAMPS was born on February 29, 1988 in Paris, France. She lives and works in Charente, France.

Since 2011, my artistic practice has explored the body, particularly the female body, as a site of becoming, transformation, and tension. From installation to painting, my work investigates the relationships between the body, its representation, and the gazes that shape it.

Developed during my studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers, my early experiments focused on the mutations of living organisms and the possibilities opened up by science and technology. Through installations drawing on the aesthetics and methods of scientific laboratories, I approached the body as malleable matter, capable of being modified, reconstructed, or artificially produced. This exploration continued through my experience working alongside ORLAN, followed by a period in a medical environment, where photography allowed me to encounter the body in its organic reality, somewhere between aesthetic fascination and a confrontation with the real.

Gradually, my research shifted from physical transformation towards the psychological and social constructions of the body. Photography, collage, cyanotype, and eventually painting, which I began exploring ...

2016 / Medical photographer internship, 1 month, Nice, France

2014 - 2016 / DNSEP Art ESBA Angers, France

2014 - 2015 / Artist ORLAN assistant internship, 5 months, Paris, France

2011 - 2014 / DNAP Art/Media, ESBA Angers, France

2009 - 2011 / Professionnal Degree in Photography, AC Nantes, France

Solo

2022
"Cyaneus Alba Terra", Office de tourisme, Aubeterre-sur-dronne, France, date: 01 - 31 august

2020
"Modulations Corporelles", Collective Mix'art Myrys, Toulouse, France, date: Sept 04 - sept 30

"EVES", Hadès Gallery, Aubeterre-sur-dronne, France, date : July 16 - August 30

2019
"Metamorphoses des corps", PARIS VIII Gallery, Saint-Denis (93), date : 25 - March 30.
Curator : Marina Capobianco Vieira

2018
"MACARIA", Théâtre Comédie Odéon, Lyon, France, Festival "Intergalactics", Date : 11- 13 april 2018
Curator : Céline Zufferey

2018
"Nos masses chairs Ambulantes", Institute of Normal Anatomy Faculty of Medicine, Nice, France
Permanent exhibition, Curator : Dr. Nicolas Bronsard

2017
"Mécanicien Corporel",P.Belfort, Toulouse, France, January, Curator: Zoubir Nait Hamoud

2008
"Aberrations" , Minima Café, Poitiers, France, Curator : Guillaume Lagandré

Group

2022
"Les arts au jardins", Jardins privés de Bonnes, France, date : 2 days in july / Curator : Les arts au jardins

"Les allégories du corps", Hadès Gallery, Aubeterre-sur-dronne, France, date : 09 july / 31 au / Curator : Lauren G.Camps

2021
"Erotiques... à dessins", Openspace Gallery, Sète, France, date : 30 oct / 28 nov / Curator : frédérique Lesschaeve

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