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Field Excursion
This series consists in 9 photographic portraits of strange creatures, which were made out of pieces of meat and fish, and were given the names of existing or imaginary bacterias.

When exhibited, they are simply presented with the words: "Specimens photographed by Celia Marais".

Some of these specimens were modeled and an...
 
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In Summer 2007, my boyfriend and I moved from New York City to San Francisco for...
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Celia Marais
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Hello

I am originally from Paris, France. I work in many mediums, including film, photography, illustration, and the web. My work has been exhibited in Montreal and San Francisco.

I like to take elements out of their accepted and habitual context, thus giving them a new, incongruous meaning. I aim to bring my viewers to question their own perceptions, hopefully making them conscious of the transitional and ephemeral quality of the process by which we humans confer meaning to things.

Maybe this is well described by the word liminal. According to Wikipedia:

"The liminal state is characterized... [Read More]
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