Camille Dubuc
Image credit: Aidan Matthews
About the Artist
Camille Dubuc is an emerging artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. They hold a BA in communications and a BFA in photography from Concordia University. Combining audiovisual installation and photography, their practice bridges personal and collective narratives on belonging, representation and identity. Camille’s images construct fictitious worlds that rest in tense rural suburbia and domestic terrains. Through uncanny atmospheres and symbolism, they aim to transcend the confines of familiar gestures, rituals and landscapes within such spaces. The involvement of their immediate community as subjects is frequent and foregrounds a desire for mutual intervention. Camille has been featured in the magazines Lez Spread the Word, Elle Québec, Architectural Digest and Lignes de fuite. They currently work as a freelance art director and photographer.
Photograph from the series This Must Be the Place by Camille Dubuc
About the Project
During their time at the Romany Eveleigh Residency, Camille pursued their project This Must Be the Place, a photographic and video series exploring the elements of tension that rise when queerness interferes within rural spaces. Having grown up in rural suburbia, Camille was interested in challenging the depiction of queer experiences within such environments, which is most often attached to a monolithic narrative of isolation. Using a documentary approach, Camille roamed off the backroads and photographed people in their homes, looking for scenes that embraced certain icons of queerness and rural spaces, and aiming at their connection rather than their divide.
