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Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock is a multimedia artist based between Brighton and London. She works across film, photography, performance and print and her practice is characterized by its fragmented, non-linear nature; questioning mainstream historical narratives around Blackness, gender, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance with multiple and layered narratives, Cammock reveals the cyclical nature of histories. Her work makes leaps between different places, times and contexts, asking us to acknowledge complex global relations and the inextricable connection between the individual and society. Cammock was the recipient of the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women and joint recipient of The Turner Prize 2019.
Other texts by Helen Cammock for DIAPHANES
  • They Call It Idlewild Extended II

    In: Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (ed.), Rebecca Hanna John (ed.), Ulrike Jordan (ed.), Thorsten Schneider (ed.), Judith Sieber (ed.), Nele Wulff (ed.), On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

  • contemporary art
  • artistic practice
  • protest movements
  • resistance