Cecilia Sordi Campos

@ceciliasordicampos | www.ceciliasordicampos.com

Cecilia Sordi Campos is a Brazilian-born, Australia-based visual artist, writer and researcher. Sordi Campos has a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from RMIT University, and she is currently a PhD candidate at the same university. Her practice is positioned in the field of socially engaged art, autofiction and expanded documentary.

Sordi Campos’ recognises embodied knowledge, and stories that sit outside the traditions and limitations of colonial narratives, as resources in the development of visual vocabularies to represent complex experiences of being-ness, womanhood and the female body, as well as migration and cultural identity. She works with mediums such as photography, biomaterials, painting, alternative processes and moving image to process her propositions.

Through her creative expression, Sordi Campos seeks strategies in communicating complex experiences within a public discourse; therefore, proposing a parting from traditional systems of power and privilege to rediscover more inclusive ways of being, knowing and aesthetic expression.

Sordi Campos’ works has been shown both locally and internationally. Most recently, her work was a finalist in the 2024 Bowness Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography, and in the Incinerator Gallery Art Award - Art for Social Change. Her work was featured in the PORTRAITS Hellerau Photography Awards 2023 at the Museum of Science and technology in Dresden, Germany, at the OpenWalls Arles 2021 Awards in Arles, France, to which she was awarded Best Moving Image, at the PhMuseum Days 2021 in Bologna, Italy, and Head On Photo Festival in Australia, amongst others.

Her work has been widely published both online and in print. Her first self-published photobook Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba has been awarded a Commendation at the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards in 2019 and won Best Book Design at the 2019 Centre for Contemporary Photography Salon in Melbourne, Australia. The project at large was awarded a Commendation at the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant in 2019. Her work has been featured in Fisheye Magazine, GUP Magazine, Paper Journal Magazine, Der Greif, British Journal of Photography, and other publications.