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Carolina Caycedo's installation "The Chapayecas are coming for you" features delicate pink and blue net-like textiles suspended from a balanced bar, each containing a large hoop, creating a harmonious yet tension-filled composition. The nets evoke traditional fishing tools, suggesting themes of capture or entrapment while referencing cultural and communal symbols through their form. With a contemporary style that integrates traditional craftsmanship and minimalist aesthetics, the artwork invites reflection on societal and environmental issues. Caycedo's work confronts the impacts of development on communities, illustrating her commitment to social and territorial resistance. ...
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Carolina Caycedo (1978, lives in Los Angeles) was born in London to Colombian parents. She transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Carolina’s artistic practise has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the artist’s process of research and acting. Through work that investigates relationships of movement, assimilation and resistance, representation and control, she addresses contexts, groups and communities that are affected by developmental projects, like the construction of dams, the privatization of water, and its consequences on riverside communities. ...
Carolina Caycedo: Artworks
Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...