Based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal), Camille Emmanuelle Legault (she/her) is an artist who works in photography. Her work revolves around trajectories of identity and memories that are created through chosen territories. Using photography as an integral tool of her research, she tries to create a visual language that maps (in)tangible memories through an autobiographical narrative. While referencing traditional modes of representation, she centers on the ephemeral quality of (un)conscious trajectories. Through the practice of collecting, the artist documents material fragments and mnemonic specimens in a concrete and minimalist manner, developing a metonymy that is intertwined with the study of the territory. Every image and constructed narrative is considered an archive and document - counterbalancing the ephemeral aspect of memory. Her body of work results in a mise en abyme that calls onto the diverse processes and inherent qualities of the photographic medium. Through artist books, photographs, installations that incorporate static and moving images, as well as interactive web spaces, the artist explores the mnemonic quality that is ascribed to the medium, thereby attempting to define it in order to better understand it.
Camille Emmanuelle Legault (she/her) is an artist who works in photography, based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). Working with the image as a mnemonic archive, she develops a visual language that studies the (in)tangible trajectories of identity through the territory. Her work has been presented in group shows, including the VAV Gallery, and Montreal's Quartier des spectacles. She is the recipient of the McAbbie Foundation Fellowship for Excellence in Photography. She is currently working on the production and self-publishing of an artist book.
