Camille Dumay
Dirty Art Department
Biography
Camille Dumay (b. 1999, Boulogne, France) is an artist based between Paris and Amsterdam. Through performance, writing, and installation, she explores the urgency and fragility of speech, especially in relation to the silencing of women. Her work blends feminist humor, absurdity, and DIY aesthetics to give voice to characters on the edge of expression.
The locker room (I keep spilling)
The locker room (I keep spilling), Wood, textile, steel, wax, paint, 180 x 40 x 194 cm Donkey, Cavity, Door Girl, Toothpaste, Snail, and Cow, move through a world that asks too much, moves too fast, and gives too little. These characters do not explain, clarify, or resolve. They mumble, hesitate, repeat. Their incoherence is deliberate, a refusal to comply with a culture obsessed with productivity and rationality. The locker room (I keep spilling) is where they store their clothes and emotional baggage, a transitional space where language spills, emotions linger, and identities blur. It proposes awkwardness, softness and emotional excess not as dysfunctions, but as radical tools for survival and resistance.