Camille Ji (2023)
Dates of residency: 7/10~8/4 2023
Siyan Camille Ji is a contemporary Chinese artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Ji received her BFA in Photography from CalArts. She is currently a MFA candidate in the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.
Ji’s work questions poetically the boundaries of imagery and reality by engaging the materiality and dimensionality of photography. To embody the materiality of the immaterial, such as human emotions and memory, Ji adopts installation, collage, and modernist techniques—“expanded photography” effective in expressing the singular materiality of the paper medium. The dimensionality of Ji’s works concerns more than the spatial composition of the visual, but the geographical mapping of the temporal—the change in materiality and methodology is a response to the aesthetic and spiritual urge to map the “memoryscape”—a metaphoric landscape formed by intersecting and parallel planes of memory. As a sojourner, forager, and most importantly, a geographer of this memoryscape, Ji constantly invites us into a space of relations through which the artist navigates a shifting urban- natural world and through which the audience is asked to rethink and relive those many connections lost to the noise in our eyes.
Camille participated in SAIKONEON with the aim of researching the surrounding natural environment and engaging in photography. She diligently explored the forests, caves, and lakes around Mount Fuji on a daily basis, creating numerous photographic works. At the end of her stay, she held an exhibition at a space in Tokyo. During the opening, she collaborated with fellow artists who participated during the same period and conducted a brief workshop.
Camille Ji (2023)
Dates of residency: 7/10~8/4 2023
Siyan Camille Ji is a contemporary Chinese artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Ji received her BFA in Photography from CalArts. She is currently a MFA candidate in the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.
Ji’s work questions poetically the boundaries of imagery and reality by engaging the materiality and dimensionality of photography. To embody the materiality of the immaterial, such as human emotions and memory, Ji adopts installation, collage, and modernist techniques—“expanded photography” effective in expressing the singular materiality of the paper medium. The dimensionality of Ji’s works concerns more than the spatial composition of the visual, but the geographical mapping of the temporal—the change in materiality and methodology is a response to the aesthetic and spiritual urge to map the “memoryscape”—a metaphoric landscape formed by intersecting and parallel planes of memory. As a sojourner, forager, and most importantly, a geographer of this memoryscape, Ji constantly invites us into a space of relations through which the artist navigates a shifting urban- natural world and through which the audience is asked to rethink and relive those many connections lost to the noise in our eyes.
Camille participated in SAIKONEON with the aim of researching the surrounding natural environment and engaging in photography. She diligently explored the forests, caves, and lakes around Mount Fuji on a daily basis, creating numerous photographic works. At the end of her stay, she held an exhibition at a space in Tokyo. During the opening, she collaborated with fellow artists who participated during the same period and conducted a brief workshop.