Camille Rojas
Movement Research, 2020
graphite on moleskine pocketbook + video
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Unique edition of 8
*This artwork is a commission. At the time of purchase, the collector is asked to select four available poses from the 32 shown here. Once a pose is selected by a collector, it is no longer available for other commissions. Delivery will be upon completion of the artwork
There are 8 unique editions available. Each edition comprises a moleskine pocketbook and an accompanying video (delivered in a digital format). Each of the 32 pages in the pocketbook contains a graphite drawing of a pose. Every eighth page features one of the poses selected by the collector. The intervening pages feature a sequence of newly conceived poses that connect the poses selected by the collector. The accompanying video illustrates the full sequence of 32 poses depicted in the pocketbook, enacted by the artist.
*Available poses: 1-2, 4-5, 7-17, 20-32
Biographical Information
Camille Rojas
b. 1993, Toronto, ON; lives and works in Toronto, ON
Education
2017 BFA, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON
Selected Exhibitions
2019 An Archive, But Not An Atlas, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON
2019 Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2018 Sothebae’s, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON (solo)
2017 System of a Gesture, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto ON (solo)
2016 The Whistler, Alliance Française Gallery, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON (solo)
Artist Reflection
Camille Rojas’s Movement Research emerges from an improvisational movement session. Rojas selected 32 photographic stills of various poses, and will use these images to create new sequences. There is a collaborative aspect of this work, in which Rojas will ask the collector to select four poses. The artist will then use this selection as a prompt for reconsidering how movement is visually interpreted, and create a unique edition based on the selection. The edition will consist of a 32 page moleskin pocketbook with graphite drawings of the poses and a video mirroring the drawings in motion.
Through Movement Research, Rojas extends the act of improvisation into the actual production of the work, and explores the presumed unwieldiness of spaces in between representation and reality. As an artist working predominantly in dance and performance, this project embraces the ambiguity between movement and reception, and eschews a sole emphasis on static objects.
– Magdalyn Asimakis