Célia is an analogue visual storyteller—their preferred medium include 35mm, medium format and instant films. Since 2016, she aspires to make some shades of the invisible visible—often by exploring the themes of disability, melancholia & grief. In October 2023, they started experimenting with cyanotype printing & toning, which led her to newfound passions for the physicality of art. She hopes to keep learning alternative photographic & printing processes in the future.
Her art is heavily inspired by romanticism, pictorialism, and gothic literature—some of her favourite artists, poets & writers are Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Brigman, Francesca Woodman, Ellen Rogers, Edna St Vincent Millay, Shirley Jackson, the Brontë Sisters & Virginia Woolf.
She currently works part time as a bookseller.
Célia Norma Schouteden
(born 1993, in Liège) is a Belgian storyteller & visual artist.
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exhibitions
March 28, 2024-May 4, 2024—collective exhibition @Studio Baxton, Brussels for the analog festival (polaroids session)
May 2021—collective exhibition @Cupper Café, Liège
October 24th 2018-November 11st 2018—first solo exhibition @Cupper Café, Liège
collabs
January 2024-ongoing—creative deck, press shots & visuals for singer Alex Apolline’s first EP.
get in touch
if you’re interested in collaborating with me, feel free to send me an email at myhauntedheights@gmail.com with the following subject “collab interest”. Thank you!
features
Printed magazines
cover art & pages in Elton Gunn (#2 If Not For you, 2017)
—art & writing in a collection published by Hylas Magazine (2017)
Online magazines
—a cyanotype & poetry on Dakota Warren's Nowhere Girl Collective, for the Billet-Doux prompt (January 2024)
—interview with Lomography
—If You Leave, PhotoVogue, instant film mag, pellicolamag, Lomography, L’Oeil de La Photographie, La Catharsis,…