Camille Royer

Visual artist from design and crafts, metal is at the heart of my practice, rooted in my childhood memories through my father's tools, between his leather workshop and the boatyards. Familiar yet also wild, this sound and conductive material inspires me: I sculpt and assemble it today with my own tools. Between miniature sculptures and in-situ installations, as well as creating matrices for embossing leather or paper, I regularly change scale and dimension. Pigments, patinas, hammering, bending, and folding are all techniques I use to explore the paradoxical and multiple nature of steel and bronze. Emerging in the background is the representation of the feminine and the systems of thought that arise from it: the body as a crossroads of struggles – a political territory to understand, defend, and stage. These poetic experiments gradually forge the guiding line of my polymorphic and collaborative work.