Camille Kaiser is an artist-researcher based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her artistic practice takes the form of long-term research projects, navigating family and state archival documents made in Switzerland, France and Algeria between the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Crucially, this time period marks the period of transition from the colonial occupation of Algeria to its independence. Her filmic and installation works explore legacies of intimate archives and their relation to institutional archives of a similar place and time, using fiction as an artistic and political strategy to redirect attention and rewrite patterns of collective use.
Kaiser’s recent solo exhibition “small gestures, grand gestures” took place at the Aargauer Kunsthaus as part of the Kiefer Hablitzel Special Prize 2022. She has previously exhibited at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Centre d’Art Neuch.tel, Stadtgalerie Bern, FMAC Geneve, Centre d’art contemporain Geneve, Display Berlin, among others.
In the upcoming months, Kaiser will pursue her research with residencies in Paris at La cit. internationale des arts (supported by the city of Geneva) and in Johannesburg with Pro Helvetia.
Kaiser’s recent solo exhibition “small gestures, grand gestures” took place at the Aargauer Kunsthaus as part of the Kiefer Hablitzel Special Prize 2022. She has previously exhibited at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Centre d’Art Neuch.tel, Stadtgalerie Bern, FMAC Geneve, Centre d’art contemporain Geneve, Display Berlin, among others.
In the upcoming months, Kaiser will pursue her research with residencies in Paris at La cit. internationale des arts (supported by the city of Geneva) and in Johannesburg with Pro Helvetia.
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