"Like a symbolic threshold from one world to another, or from one type of order to the next, the arches betray their systematics: what they are meant to let through, or rather what they attempt to filter. One is made of yellow and black blinds, echoing the motifs of Derek Jarman’s house in England, the cradle of a cinematic community and of a fragile, gravel garden near a nuclear power station. The other shows a gradient of grey tones that look likes it could open onto an office corridor inhabited by whitish printers. It reflects a whole register of poor visuality that recurs through a play of light, or through the symbolism of the shreds of skin of the glazed earthenware that cling to it. Close to the symbolism of the vessel, the arch also touches on the social body: here, that of workers. The animated film, Pantino M49, takes up the codes of another anonymous corridor: is it a reunion of two office colleagues or a staging of the split psyche of this harlequin trying to reconnect? With these splintered works, Camille Dumond submits different subjective orders to structures that attempt to organise and sequence them." (From the text written by Paolo Baggi for the exhibition)

Thanks to EAC team : Philippe Quéloz, Maude Quéloz, Débora Beuret, Simon Beuret, Sébastien Strahm, Evelyne Gigon & the exhibition keepers.
Thanks to CAN team : Martin Jakob, Sylvie Linder, Magali Pexa, Nicolas Raufaste, Liza Trottet, Sebastian Verdon.
Thanks to : Sonia Garcês, Adrian Fernandez Garcia, Nicolas Ponce, Clara Alloing, Nicolas Raufaste.

Photos: Sebastian Verdon

Press Kit

The exhibition is the result of a dialogue between different works from recent years, including sculptures with a predominant use of ceramics, but also floor installations, hanging installations and a video animation. ‘Quarry' refers to the double career (in french pun) produced by an interdisciplinary practice of making films and installing exhibitions. ‘Quarry’ also refers to the clay quarry, where the minerals were found to produce the glaze for the sculptures. Most of the glazes were made from tree ashes. PARALLEL QUARRY reflects on the principle of symmetry and parallelism, between the symbolism of the sphere and the loop. The show only deploys what happens around the construction of fictional films, and scenarios, without showing any fiction film in the room. All the artworks can lead to different paths: There is the upcoming fiction film "Prospect Center" (working title, 2023), the ceramic skeletal forms hanging, designed in conjunction with the characters' ties from the film "The Escape" (2019).

Photos: Greg Clément

FRAC press release

The installation Wheels coiled with weeds is a mandatory passage to the rest of the exhibition. The structure is reminiscent of non-places such as airports – spaces that serve only to be crossed, and to manage the flow of bodies/passengers. The film The Escape is screened inside the installation. It is a short fiction film in which an airline staff find themselves wandering with no customers, and wander around an empty tarmac and grounded planes.

"Camille Dumond’s installation, which opens 'Étoiles distantes', is not a wheel despite its title (Wheels Colled with Weeds) but a suspended half propeller, made up of fragments of ceramic and strips of industrial fabric evoking airport designs. It forms a corridor at the end of which is shown a film, The Escape (2019), in which «an airport agent gradually questions the meaning of her daily life, with the help of her colleagues». Spectre des troubles - sur l'exposition "Etoiles distantes" Eric Loret - AOC Media - January 2022. Complete article

Photos: Fanny Trichet

PDF Interview by Julie Marmet

Entretien avec Julie Marmet

The show on Art viewer

It won’t be silence is a show in two parts, with Maya Hottarek, Camille Kaiser, Camille Dumond and Tina Omayemi Reden, conceptualized by Julie Marmet. The project articulates self-mythological narratives and strategies of fictionalisation, in order to put into space situated, political and polyphonic stories. For the first part, Maya Hottarek & Camille Kaiser create bio/mytho-graphic identities and use the tools of directing and editing to deconstruct the characters, reconstruct the narrative and expose the stages of construction of the fiction. For the second part , Camille Dumond & Tina Omayemi Reden draw on para-political discourse to question the dominant narrative, interrogate its (non-)collective memory and give voice to counter-hegemonic narratives. Supported by CAN Team: Martin Jakob, Sylvie Linder, Magali Pexa, Nicolas Raufaste, Liza Trottet, Sebastian Verdon.

Photos: Sebastian Verdon

associated publication with contributions from Ghalas Charara, Nadia Elamly, Olivia Fahmy, Max Leo Hauri, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, Camilla Paolino, Julia Pecheur, Colin Raynal, Felix Toro.

Photos: Marilou Rose Jarry

Launched as an artists* house in July 2019, the PALAZZINA project is made up of a team of eight artists who have been living together and managing the exhibition space together since its inception.
Alemannengasse 60, Basel

Photos by Guadalupe Ruiz

Eye archive group (Technopark) presents the outcome of research conducted on the subject of translation and transcription between two languages, in Tangier and Rabat, during a residency of 3 months in Morocco. This residence was carried out within the framework of the Studio Residency 2020 program set up by Swiss art Council / Pro Helvetia - Cairo. The residency began in December 2019 in Dabateatr (Tangier), and ended in Le Cube - independent art room (Rabat) in March 2020.


Avec / With : Hamza Ahmich, Amine Daoud, Salma El idrysy, Diyae Maalem, Saad Mohad, Ilias Naser, Sara Zekri ; Réalisé par / Directed by : Camille Dumond ; Créé en collaboration avec / Created in collaboration with : Hamza Ahmich, Anass Allaoui, Younes Daghmoumi, Amine Daoud, Salma El idrysy, Diyae Maalem, Saad Mohad, Ilias Naser, Hassan Okacha, Sara Zekri; Image / Camera + Montage / Editing : Camille Dumond ; Prise de son / Sound : Younes Daghmoumi; Mixage & création sonore / Sound edit & design : Reda Zniber; Traduction / Translation : Zineb Sbai El Idrissi, Achraf Remok, Ayoub El Mouzaine ; Sous-titrage / Subtitling : Zineb Sbai El Idrissi, Camille Dumond ; Voix-off / Voice-over : Abdessamad El Montassir; Etalonnage / Grading : Kevin Le Dortz ; Graphisme / Graphic design : Hamza Ahmich, Anas Massaoudi;
Remerciements / Acknowledgments : Zineb Sbai El Idrissi, Achraf Remok, Ayoub El Mouzaine, Le Cube – independant art room (Elisabeth Piskernik, Gabrielle Camuset, Joséphine Dernoncourt), Dabatek / Dabateatr (Jaouad Essounani, Farah Abdelmoumni, Technopark Tanger), Compagnie P-art-age / Tanger , Ayoub El Jamal & Randa Maroufi, Drissi El Arbi & ZOOM7 production, Reda Zniber & Mariakenzi Lahlou, Kevin Le Dortz & Faysal Lahrouchi, Anna Benarrosh, Emilienne Guiffan.

The script of the film is based on interviews held with ground handling employees from Geneva airport in 2018-19.
Written and directed by Camille Dumond. With: Tarren Johnson, Kaspar Locher, Salber Williams. Cinematography: Romain Rampillon. Camera assistants: Julien Bauer, Niko Gindler. Director Assistants: Khristina Demenshina, Ndayé Kouagou, Steve Paul. Sound recording: Tsvetelina Valkova, Alexander Acevedo. Make-up: Mellie Steffanides. Costumes : Camille Dumond, Luzie Meyer. Editing: Deborah Uhde, Vera Herr, Camille Dumond. Sound mix : Adrien Kessler. Color: Leon Orlandi. Subtitles : Piero Di Clemente/Raggioverde.

Swiss Art Awards aknowledments: Benjamin, Jony, Lauren, Lea, Beni, Natascha, Cy, Marie-Pierre.

Written and directed by Camille Dumond. With: Marion Duval, Claire Van Lubeek, Kayije Kagame, Mallika Juillard, Ravi Govender, Romain Grateau, Louise Nicollon des Abbayes. Directing assistant : Camille Vanoye. DOP : Michaël Capron. Sound : Masaki Hatsui. Costumes : Maïlys Leung. Regie : Louise Nicollon des Abbayes, Romain Grateau, Clara Coste. Catering : Adrien Chenevière. Music : Camille Dumond. Editing : Léa Chatauret. Sound mix and editing : Charlotte Butrak. Coloring : Nicolas Lossec. With support from Département de la culture et du sport de la Ville de Genève - Aide à la création 2017.