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Campbell’s Breath Portraits translate the transient idiosyncrasies of breath into glowing abstract images. Using recordings from his ongoing Black Breath Archive, the images capture one tenth to one hundredth of a second of breath, freezing the briefest moment of life’s ongoing and most essential process. Here Campbell presents part of the original set of Breath Portraits, featuring friends, colleagues and senior members of British Columbia’s Black community.
Campbell describes the process of recording the breath as deeply intimate. “What’s communicated sitting in a quiet room listening to breath is extraordinary. The Breath Portraits become that experience.”
Beginning with the early stages of his investigations into the preciousness of Black breath, Campbell’s 2021 performace at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Black Breath Spectacle, turned the simple act of breathing into a response to the poor representation of Black people in art institutions and a meditation on collective power and…
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Campbell’s Breath Portraits translate the transient idiosyncrasies of breath into glowing abstract images. Using recordings from his ongoing Black Breath Archive, the images capture one tenth to one hundredth of a second of breath, freezing the briefest moment of life’s ongoing and most essential process. Here Campbell presents part of the original set of Breath Portraits, featuring friends, colleagues and senior members of British Columbia’s Black community.
Campbell describes the process of recording the breath as deeply intimate. “What’s communicated sitting in a quiet room listening to breath is extraordinary. The Breath Portraits become that experience.”
Beginning with the early stages of his investigations into the preciousness of Black breath, Campbell’s 2021 performace at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Black Breath Spectacle, turned the simple act of breathing into a response to the poor representation of Black people in art institutions and a meditation on collective power and…
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