Camile Kaiser

Camile Kaiser (1992) is a Swiss, French and Algerian artist-researcher based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her artistic practice takes form in long-term research projects, exploring the entanglement of intimate archives and their relation to institutional archives of a similar place and time. Her filmic and installation works make use of fiction as an artistic and political strategy to redirect attention and rewrite routines of collective use. Recently, she has been working with family and state archival documents made in Switzerland, France and Algeria between the mid-1950s and early 1960s in the context of colonial occupation and the transition to Algeria’s independence.
Her recent solo exhibition small gestures, grand gestures took place at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in the context of the Kiefer Hablitzel Special Prize 2022. She has previously exhibited at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Stadtgalerie Bern, FMAC Genève, Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Display Berlin, among others. She is currently in residency in Johannesburg and Cape Town with Pro Helvetia the Swiss Arts Council from January to March 2024, exploring the politics and aesthetics of archives and archiving within the context of South Africa and its artistic scene by engaging with various projects, institutions and individuals.