Camille Royer

Plastic artist, metal is at the heart of her practice, rooted in her childhood memories with her father's tools, between his leather workshop and the boatyards. This familiar material, both sonorous and conductive, inspires her: she sculpts and assembles it today with her own tools, from miniature sculptures to in-situ installations, including the creation of molds for embossing leather or paper. Pigments, patinas, hammering, bending, and folding are just some of the techniques she uses to explore its paradoxical and multiple nature. Emerging in the background is the representation of the feminine and the systems of thought that stem from it: the body as a crossroads of struggles – a political territory to understand, defend, and stage. Her poetic experiments gradually forge the guiding line of her polymorphic and collaborative work.