selected works
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“Sleep is a kind of death. In terms of this polarization between a state of intimacy and a state of anxiety, the lullaby stands in the middle of that."
David Toop, in conversation with Camille Norment
"You have the real world and all of its possibilities from splendid to horrifying, and you have the pacifying fantasy that meet in the same space. The lullaby thus sits in the cusp of the uncanny – something that should remain a secret, but has actually been revealed.”
Camille Norment, in conversation with David Toop
The musical refrain constitutes a regular repetition of a phrase or phenomenon; a way of returning to, or cycling through an essence while continuing to move forward.
The hypnotic swing in Norment’s Lull cycles through states of intimacy and anxiety. The Refrain series presents this cycle in stasis, the body that is slipping away – or transforming into another state.
This series of glass sculptures takes the form of melting bones. The skeletons belong to a small person, neither a child nor an adult, the gender is unclear. The glass objects reveal an ambiguity– attraction and fascination as well as discomfort, fragility and violence. The fact that they look as though they are melting make them alien in their continual transformation, frozen in a moment in the continuous cycle of a feedback loop.
“Sleep is a kind of death. In terms of this polarization between a state of intimacy and a state of anxiety, the lullaby stands in the middle of that."
David Toop, in conversation with Camille Norment
"You have the real world and all of its possibilities from splendid to horrifying, and you have the pacifying fantasy that meet in the same space. The lullaby thus sits in the cusp of the uncanny – something that should remain a secret, but has actually been revealed.”
Camille Norment, in conversation with David Toop
The musical refrain constitutes a regular repetition of a phrase or phenomenon; a way of returning to, or cycling through an essence while continuing to move forward.
The hypnotic swing in Norment’s Lull cycles through states of intimacy and anxiety. The Refrain series presents this cycle in stasis, the body that is slipping away – or transforming into another state.
This series of glass sculptures takes the form of melting bones. The skeletons belong to a small person, neither a child nor an adult, the gender is unclear. The glass objects reveal an ambiguity– attraction and fascination as well as discomfort, fragility and violence. The fact that they look as though they are melting make them alien in their continual transformation, frozen in a moment in the continuous cycle of a feedback loop.
