Since 2016, she aspires to make the invisible visible—often by exploring the themes of disability, melancholia & grief. Their preferred medium is film photography (35mm, 120mm, polaroid). Since October 2023, they’ve started experimenting with cyanotype printing & toning. She hopes to keep learning alternative photographic & printing processes in the future.

Her art is heavily inspired by the preraphaelites, romanticism, pictorialismand literature—some of her favourite artists, poets & writers are respectively Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Brigman, Alice BoughtonFrancesca Woodman, Ellen Rogers, Edna St Vincent Millay, Shirley Jackson, the Brontë Sisters & Virginia Woolf.

Cinematography also has a crucial role in her art, as she often finds inspiration in films—Dead Poets Society, The Others, Maurice, Pride & Prejudice, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Ammonite,… She (not so) secretly hopes to work on a film set someday… By creating her freelancing project, Haunted Heights, she wishes to share her love for romanticism & symbolism with others & create more art through collaborations.

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Célia Schouteden

(born 1993, in Liège) is a Belgian storyteller & visual artist. (she/they)

publications/exhibitions

  • PAST

    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

  • Printed magazines

    —cover art & pages in Elton Gunn (#2 If Not For you, 2017)

    —art & writing in a collection published by Hylas Magazine (2017)

    — art in Honey & Lime Literary Magazine (#2 Dancing Into Oblivion, 2019)

    Online magazines

    —interview with Lomography (x)

    —If You Leave, PhotoVogue, instant film mag, pellicolamag,…

  • December 2021—self portraits & portraits for Pearl Armor (jewelry brand made in Belgium)

  • 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!