Photo by Jon Del Real

Jiselle Kamppila is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work moves fluidly between performance, photography, installation, and experimental poetics. Her manuscript I Wouldn’t Mourn My Broken Bones is an autobiographical exploration of queerness, psychosis, identity, and survival, influenced by thinkers like Julia Kristeva and Jean-Paul Sartre and writers including Eileen Myles, Dennis Cooper, and Kathy Acker. A graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s MFA program and Otis College of Art& Design’s Fine Arts program, Kamppila’s practice is rooted in the visceral and abject, transforming trauma into fragmented, surreal language and visual form. Her work exists at the threshold between body and text, often presented as sculptural installations or immersive performances that refuse resolution, holding space for both devastation and reclamation. Through text and image, she interrogates memory, intimacy, and the non-linear poetics of healing, blending the grotesque with tenderness, humor, and defiance.