CAMILLA REYMAN

Camilla Reyman is a Danish artist living and working in Copenhagen, an interpreter of cultural history through the recognisable language of art. Holding an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, Reyman’s artistic expression—spanning painting, drawing, and installation—calls into question the human dominance over the natural world. Her works seek to restore agency embedded in materials, working primarily with pigments from bone, clay, and insects, prompting contemplations of Western self-understanding and the hierarchy between the artist and their art.

Beginning her studies with a view to photography, Reyman felt the lens acted as an unnatural barrier between her and her subjects, thus developing a creative process open to the collaboration of ‘external creators’, such as technology, insects and animals, to more authentically portray the inevitabilities of both metamorphosis and decay in our natural world.

For Collection 16, Ark Kollekt presents five of Reyman’s pigment and acrylic mediums on canvas. Her paintings merge the strict, precise forms of geometry with the unpredictability of organic pigment. The resulting interplay creates a calm, timeless, and mesmerizing experience for both artist and viewer.