Camille Dedenise is a French & Austrian artist creating mimesis as the ecopoetical act. With her practice, Camille Dedenise calls for the deconstruction of the anthropological axiom that sets apart, and opposes, humans from nature, especially in the context of the ecological disaster.
She explores the idea of ‘eco’ beyond the concept of ‘ego’, questioning the human possession of Earth. Her artistic ecosystem is the ritual space of passage, of metamorphosis. Camille Dedenise forges an alchemy of forms, symbols, flesh, intimacy, and archetypal forces, moving in between subconscious, chaos, imagination, ardor, symbolism, and oecologia. Paintings, ceramics, installations, words and rituals create a sensitive and subversive artistic ecosystem.
After studies in anthropology and political science, Camille Dedenise graduated with an MRes ‘Arts and Languages’ from the EHESS Paris (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), under the direction of André Gunthert. She then received an MA from the Royal College of Art of London in Textiles Mixed Media. She has shown her work in the UK, Santiago, Paris, and Vienna and also had her texts published, both in French and in English, in specialised editions.
Currently based in Vienna and in the French Alps, Camille Dedenise works both in studio and in situ in territories of mountains, forests and glaciers.
