Bio — Cecilia Sordi Campos

Cecilia Sordi Campos (b. 1989, Brazil)

Growing up in the countryside in Brazil, I wanted to be an astronaut.
Instead, I was given a camera at age nine as a prize for winning a contest at primary school. I took photos of everything and everyone. Unfortunately, many of the rolls of film I went through were never developed. I still think of those never seen photographs.

I have been living in Australia for the past 17 years, and I am now a Melbourne-based visual artist, writer and researcher. My practice is positioned in the field of socially engaged art, autofiction and expanded photography.

My projects recognise embodied knowledge, and ‘narratives of the self’ that sit outside the traditions and limitations of colonial narratives, as resources in the development of visual vocabularies to represent complex experiences of being-ness, relationship dynamics, womanhood and the female body, and migration and identity. I work with mediums such as photography, biomaterials, painting, alternative processes and moving image to process my propositions.

The aim of the projects is the seeking of strategies in communicating these experiences within a public discourse; therefore, proposing a parting from traditional systems of power and privilege to rediscover inclusive ways of knowing and aesthetic expression.

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I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands and waterways on which I work, live and travel.
I pay my respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging.
Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be Aboriginal land.