ACTS OF ATTENTIONS • Visual Blueprints of Memory and Place

Camilla Howalt - London-trained & Malmö-based artist


I create layered, textured works in painting, textiles, and photography. These unfold as poetic blueprints - self-developed structures guiding mnemonic explorations of memory, perception, and (be-)longing.

Each piece holds its own architecture, weaving material, composition, and emotion into contemplative visual maps of mind, body, and place. They open onto liminal states - where memory estranges the familiar, and negative capability holds space for uncertainty and the unresolvable.

What if the act of making is not production but listening? Read more → POIESIS

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Thank you for visiting • I look forward to sharing more with you.

Camilla Howalt

STRANGE FRUIT IN A GLIMPSE

  • STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 01 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 02 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

  • STRANGE FRUIT 03 (2020) / Photo Transfer/MDF/Household Paint/Pyrography Pen/Stencil / 110 x 80 cm

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MEET THE ARTIST & THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE WORK •

Dear visitor,

Thank you for being here.

What you’ll find here is a practice of traces - evolving blueprints of perception and presence. My work unfolds through poiesis: a process of listening, tracing, and making. Colour, texture, and composition come together not to explain, but to hold space for what’s unfolding - what’s near, what’s disappearing.

I move through inner and outer architectural landscapes - portraits of experience - with materials that speak back: pigment, thread, fabric, photographic layers. These surfaces hold memory and sensation in tension - mapping states of perception, unravelling impressions, knotting complexity into tactile form.

This practice is about staying close to the weave - where sensuality, introspection, and rupture meet. Each piece is its own topographical mapping: an intimate space where meaning can remain unfinished, and something unnamed might begin to surface.

If you’re curious to go deeper, I’ve written more about my process in the [Artist Statement & Poiesis].

Warmly,
Camilla

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