selected works
Light Installation
Dimensions Variable
In 2007, Camille Norment was one of three artists invited to produce a work that responds to the enclosed ‘transitory compound’ of Sundholm in Copenhagen. Sundholm was built in 1908 as a hospital and forced-labor institution for alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and convicted criminals. More recently, a temporary kindergarten, and an art and design center have been added to the list. Visitors entering this astoundingly heterotopic environment are enveloped by an architectural environment that has not changed since 1908. The experience becomes even more surreal when navigating the streets and encountering small clusters of the compounds inhabitants engaged in various laborious or illicit activities.
The two brick archways that stand as entry and exit points of the compound are physical markers of transition. In The Hollow - Beyond Violet, the white fluorescent lights that normally light the passages at night are replaced with ultra-violet fluorescent – black light. Bodies are defined by abstract areas of brightness. The bodies fracture the illumination as they pass from one realm to another, wearing all the connotations of the color purple.
In 2007, Camille Norment was one of three artists invited to produce a work that responds to the enclosed ‘transitory compound’ of Sundholm in Copenhagen. Sundholm was built in 1908 as a hospital and forced-labor institution for alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and convicted criminals. More recently, a temporary kindergarten, and an art and design center have been added to the list. Visitors entering this astoundingly heterotopic environment are enveloped by an architectural environment that has not changed since 1908. The experience becomes even more surreal when navigating the streets and encountering small clusters of the compounds inhabitants engaged in various laborious or illicit activities.
The two brick archways that stand as entry and exit points of the compound are physical markers of transition. In The Hollow - Beyond Violet, the white fluorescent lights that normally light the passages at night are replaced with ultra-violet fluorescent – black light. Bodies are defined by abstract areas of brightness. The bodies fracture the illumination as they pass from one realm to another, wearing all the connotations of the color purple.
