Kris Campo: Me, My Family & I, 2012
Going through the creation process for ‘Trias’ and ‘Histriones’ has led to the project Me, My Family and I, where the common thread of dance and theater becomes the starting point for proposing an unconventional family image.
Each object has a scenery one family member personalizes through self-made collages based on family pictures and existing patterns. The decals are consciously sliced into pieces and assembled together. As I did in previous work, photos of the family members are sliced and mixed with small pieces of classical decals to form unique patterns. My whole family has been included in the objects, but only those who really look closely will recognize them. The objects are framed by prints on large sheets of rice paper, 1m wide by 2m long, containing details of the objects, creating an interaction between the objects and the walls of the exhibition area, simulating a defined environment – a house?
Me, my family & I is a playful, somewhat eccentric and relativistic conception of my family. It’s not a family tree nor a family photo but rather an evocation without more. These relatives (have) exist(ed). Consciously and unconsciously, they have left physical and psychological traces by moving around into my world and through the interaction that occurs in a family context.
Captions
- Lodevicus, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 26,5 cm, d: 19 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Lodevicus, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: h: 1,93m, w: 1m. © Stanislas Huaux
- Eduard, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 24,5cm, d: 11 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Eduard, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: h: 1,51 m, w: 1m. © Stanislas Huaux
- Bettina, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 19 cm, d: 15 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Bettina, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: l: 172,80 cm, w: 1m. © Stanislas Huaux
- Josephine, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 14,5cm, d: 15 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Josephine, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: l: 1,92m, w: 1m. © Stanislas Huaux
- Rosa, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 20 cm, d: 18 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Rosa, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: l: 176,85 cm, w: 100 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Marthe, 2012, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: h: 23 cm, d: 15cm. © Stanislas Huaux
- Marthe, 2012, rice paper print, Dimensions: l: 1,60m, w: 1m. © Stanislas Huaux
