Born on February 22, 1964 in Nice, Olivier Camen lives and works in Montpellier.He studied at the Free Conservatory of French Cinema, director's section (1983-1984). Olivier Camen works on memory, whether individual (The color dress of time) or collective (Memories, The noise of silk). Whatever the subject, the artist needs to find an echo in his own story. Olivier Camen has a very strong relationship with the image, which is probably why he always starts from a photographic medium, almost always in black and white. Technically, he enlarges a document and has it printed on canvas by means of digigraphy. The change of scale reveals things that were invisible to the eye. Camen then colors the document, he begins to "dream" it. He's starting to make it his own. Then comes the work of thread and needle which is a way for him to create an intimate dimension with the subject, to establish a dialogue between past and present. As a child, he could spend hours admiring his grandmothers embroidering. Time seemed to slow down ... Embroidering is like drawing, we are in the line. Whatever the subject, Olivier Camen simply tries to be in the evocation, in the intuitive. He tries to hide behind the subject.
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