Emma Cambier
France, 2025, 6’
A woman sings as the pages of a family album are turned. With each turn, her voice begins to falter—catching on a face that recurs, ghost-like, in most of the photographs. The song, a nursery rhyme from 1990s Réunion Island, carries more than its melody. Through her voice, it tells the story of an island, a family, and perhaps, their vanishing.
Emma Cambier is an artist and writer. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from La Cambre and is currently in her final year at the Beaux-Arts of Marseille. Her practice spans multiple media—including photography, video, sound, and performance — as a way to unfold her narratives. Blending autofiction and magical realism, her work revolves around recurring themes: the ambiguity of female desire, an animist relationship with nature, and the evocation of childhood. Her debut novel, Notre-Dame-des-Laves, is forthcoming from Gallimard in 2026. She has presented performative readings at the Actoral Festival, the Labo Démo at Espace Montévidéo, and more recently at Maison Poème in Brussels. Her films have been screened at Vidéodrome (Marseille) and Point Éphémère (Paris).
School: Fine Arts School of Marseille