Marc Camille Chaimowizc
Why?
Mixed media. Colour Palette. Visual Language. Decoration. Nostalgic components.
https://frieze.com/article/%E2%80%98-cherished-company-others-%E2%80%99-marc-camille-chaimowicz
An implicitly slow time base exists within my work, so there’s a built-in, perpetual reassessment. There’s a term the French have, la boucle, which means ‘the belt’ but has more resonance in French, implying a circularity.
To give a specific example, I’m thrilled to have been invited to do a solo show at the Vienna Secession next year. This gives me a 15 month lead-in time, but more to the point, beyond the august tradition the Secession has, it may also solicit a response that takes into account the fact that I was living there 20 years ago, and is likely to produce a project that will have, in all probability, a 20–25-year time base. In my book Café du reve (1985) there’s a chapter entitled ‘Letter from Vienna’, and I’m thinking that it might be interesting as a kind of solipsistic exercise to answer, two decades later, my own letter. Of course, whether I will actually show work from that period is still open to question.
I think in that sense the title ‘… In the Cherished Company of Others …’ hopefully implies that, although we might choose to court solitude to a high degree, we should never find ourselves fetishizing the sadness of isolation, conceptual or otherwise.
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