Photo Journal Monday: Alice Campos
Your portrait was, 2021 © Alice Campos
Images and text by Alice Campos
Liquid Emulsion
My practice gathers the disciplines of Alternative Analogue and Cameraless Photography, Moving Image, Experimental Sound, Sculpture and Writing. I accumulate findings from varied areas of existence, an existence that is birthed from the lens, under the idea of ‘Light Research’- immaterial and situational based research that is undertaken within each unique photograph. I collect influences from archives, literature, contemporariness, myth and science. A factual approach whilst also questioning our reality. My photographs are a document of gestural proof. Within the core of this is what I describe as ‘an umbilical cord of existential consciousness bound to the ground via our shadow’.
Droplets of fallen, 2021 © Alice Campos
I am a UK based artist, I studied at Goldsmiths University, London where I gained a First Class Degree in Fine Art, 2019. I am represented by both Open Doors Gallery and Start Art Global, an LCN Four Corners Artist and a GUP Fresh Eyes Talent of 2021. I work independently and collaboratively, notable exhibitions have included Berlin Short Film Festival (2017), Atlas House, Ipswich Biennale (2018), Photo London (2018), The South London Gallery (2020), AIR Gallery (2020), Deptford Cinema (2020) and Art Rotterdam (2021). I have begun my year-long Residency with The London Alternative Photography Collective, working alongside The Sustainable Darkroom, creating a Photographic Garden in Leeds, UK. Where I will be growing Plastic Eating Mushrooms to eat the Resin coated layer of photographic paper, to create a full life cycle of a photographic print- from light to earth. Death to rebirth.
Crying hair, 2021 © Alice Campos
Liquid Emulsions. Rippled fine lines, not dissimilar to our own skin. Overlapped bulging creases, housing thickened black emulsion. These Liquid Emulsions exist within my current Work in Progress, FLESH. FLESH is a beginning to the end, an accumulation of perennial human existences, collecting human, non-human and immaterial memories of nostalgic touch and human presence.
You Are, 2021 © Alice Campos
