Elaine Cameron-Weir

Elaine Cameron-Weir is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates sculptures, paintings and installations that blend elements of 20th-century art, science fiction, and an imagined future. Incorporating materials such as wood, concrete, plaster, marble, brass, and acrylic paint, Cameron-Weir challenges conventional beliefs and questions the individual and collective conditions shaping our perceptions of reality. The materials are combined in a manner that creates impressions of surgical instruments, laboratory equipment, or military gear, blurring the lines between protection, pleasure, and pain. For example, Low Relief Icon (2021), which was featured at the 58th Venice Biennale, was made of factory conveyor belts and metal caskets used by the US military to transport remains, each illuminated by flicker lights and resting on a metallic floor. Drawing inspiration from scientific, religious, industrial, and military paradigms, Cameron-Weir isolates parts she uses from their original meanings and adds a new layer of interpretation.