Kim-Camille Kreuz

Image from “I can't tell you right now” project by Kim-Camille Kreuz

Biography

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Kim-Camille Kreuz (b. 1999, DE) holds a BA in Design and Innovation and studies Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Ed Atkins and at the Beaux-Arts de Paris with Claude Closky and Dove Allouche. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Paris. Her work explores traces, imprints, and the material presence of things. Using found objects and fragmented, serial arrangements, she investigates reproduction, surrogacy, and the link between original and copy. Photography, video, and sculptural casts function not just as representations, but as evidence or stand-ins. Even in a precise formal language, a bodily presence persists—conveyed through materials and spatial settings.

The project

In my series “I can't tell you right now”, I combine photographic imagery with material settings: UV prints on glass are mounted on simple wooden supports. Through serial arrangements, I explore the space between visibility and withdrawal, between object and absence. My work reflects indexical thinking, the glass as a transparent threshold, the photograph as trace, and creates a fragile presence conveyed not through depiction, but through material proximity. The images show details from a city bus. For two months, I rode the same route every day and took one photograph per ride. What is shown here is a selection from that process, fragments of a recurring routine, condensed into a quiet, abstract visual language. The works are shown in variable groupings, and both the number and spatial arrangement can be adapted in response to each exhibition context, allowing for a site-specific and flexible presentation. 

Image from “I can't tell you right now” project by Kim-Camille Kreuz

Image from “I can't tell you right now” project by Kim-Camille Kreuz

My artistic practice revolves around the notion of trace, imprint, and the material presence of things in the world. Many of my works are rooted in the concept of indexicality – an interest in images, objects, or casts that maintain a direct physical link to something real. The media I use, such as photography, video, or sculptural casts, do not merely represent, but act as evidence, traces, or stand-ins for an absent reality.