Bio

Born in Paris and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Celine Guilbaud interested in the traditions and aesthetics of daily life across cultures. As an artist, she strives to study the nuances and subtleties of society, daydreaming about a world in which harmony prevails. With a feminist lens, she hopes to inspire young women to take a closer look at the world around us to find their unique perspective and voice wherever they may be. Currently working as a Boudoir photographer in Savannah, Georgia, Celine is primarily focused on empowerment through portraiture, though she plans on returning to interiors as her next conceptual body of work.

Statement

In my work, I aim to recall a sense of the natural- how it feels to interact with Earth and its elements, and to highlight how our senses are dulled in in increasingly synthetic world. The average American spends 90% of their day indoors, something that is rarely considered in our fast-paced, technology-based society. My photographic practice revolves around the daily sensation of being trapped inside closed doors and blank walls for hours on end, completely segregated from the outside world our ancestors inhabited. In my composited images, I escape the mundane boundaries of my spaces by juxtaposing them with the natural world that I crave, letting in the forces we expel from daily life. My compositions are an attempt to capture and investigate the naturally occurring beauty on Earth, and how it has a positive effect on the mind and body when associated with everyday places; we are more attune to the aesthetics of nature than our own constructed ideas of space. This idea relates to the Japanese therapeutic practice of “Forest Bathing”, where one repeatedly goes into nature simply to observe and enjoy it. I use my camera as a means to take part in this custom in which nature is like a bath; all-encompassing and rejuvenating.
Drawing influences from Surrealism, Entropic Reverie seeks to combine the synthetic with the sublime to inspire the viewer to imagine an alternate reality where we live in greater harmony with the natural world.