Camille Hervouet was born in 1984. She lives and works in Nantes.
Based on the three subjects: nature, architecture, inhabitant, Camille Hervouet's photographs question issues related to the territory. Through a distance she places between her and the subjects, she highlights the latent tension within her images, the duality between reality and fantasy.
Camille Hervouet uses a rigorous protocole supported by the technique of analogue photography, that imposes a long and slow temporality. If she revisits historical practices of professional or amateur photography, she does so to reveal and interpret their generic nature and understand the way it conditions a certain period in time.
In a series of images whose composition reveals a singular or universal dimension of spaces and individuals, she tries to clarify a resisting reality. Camille Hervouet works in parallel with Grégory Valton on a project about love, enlarging her practice through writing, video and mapping.
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