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Charles Campbell: Breath Portraits
Campbell鈥檚 Breath Portraits translate the transient idiosyncrasies of breath into glowing abstract images. Using recordings from his ongoing Black Breath Archive, the images capture one tenth to one hundredth of a second of breath, freezing the briefest moment of life鈥檚 ongoing and most essential process. Here Campbell presents part of the original set of Breath Portraits, featuring friends, colleagues and senior members of British Columbia鈥檚 Black community.
Campbell describes the process of recording the breath as deeply intimate. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 communicated sitting in a quiet room listening to breath is extraordinary. The Breath Portraits become that experience.鈥�
Charles Campbell is a Jamaican born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator based on l蓹k虛史蓹艐蓹n territory, Victoria BC. Using sculpture, sound, installation and performance, his work pulls at the threads of time. Finding channels into the past and future Campbell reconstructs broken somatic, communal and spiritual connections, creating spaces of solace and meaning for all of us living in the wake of slavery and colonization.
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Campbell鈥檚 Breath Portraits translate the transient idiosyncrasies of breath into glowing abstract images. Using recordings from his ongoing Black Breath Archive, the images capture one tenth to one hundredth of a second of breath, freezing the briefest moment of life鈥檚 ongoing and most essential process. Here Campbell presents part of the original set of Breath Portraits, featuring friends, colleagues and senior members of British Columbia鈥檚 Black community.
Campbell describes the process of recording the breath as deeply intimate. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 communicated sitting in a quiet room listening to breath is extraordinary. The Breath Portraits become that experience.鈥�
Charles Campbell is a Jamaican born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator based on l蓹k虛史蓹艐蓹n territory, Victoria BC. Using sculpture, sound, installation and performance, his work pulls at the threads of time. Finding channels into the past and future Campbell reconstructs broken somatic, communal and spiritual connections, creating spaces of solace and meaning for all of us living in the wake of slavery and colonization.
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