Camille Cornillon
Bio
As she travels across Europe, Camille Cornillon builds her atlas of artistic and
cultural influences, which are constructed like a patchwork around clay. She
gives form to her lived experience of the territories by appropriating common
objects, transforming and multiplying them, as if to increase their imaginary
power. The object becomes the mediator between her inner world and the ever
new outer world. The design of this Amsterdam bar cup will receive,
triumphantly, the Hellenic letters of the front of a Greek taverna. The banality
of the scene of a snake hunting a fly becomes tragic. Memory becomes legend,
the commonplace becomes myth. An artist originally from Burgundy, Camille
moved to Holland and Belgium, and then came to Greece to find the origins of
ceramics. There she finds the soothing frenzy of the eras that come together,
she soaks herself in an environment full of history and stories and translates it
into a pure craft.
Camille Cornillon learned plaster molds art and craft, and ceramic at the Fine art
School of Lyon, France (ENSBAL) between 2013 and 2015 and obtained her
Bachelor of Fine Arts, specialised in visual arts, at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
of Amsterdam in 2019.



