Cristina Camacho's "Silver Lining" presents a complex interplay of earth tones and subtle blues, featuring symmetrical, wave-like shapes that create a sense of depth and movement. The artwork’s sculptural quality emerges through intricately cut and layered canvas, evoking fabric-like textures. This abstract, geometric composition invites viewers to explore themes of concealment and revelation, challenging perceptions of reality. Camacho's innovative technique of manipulating canvas disrupts traditional boundaries, reflecting her intent to question societal norms and redefine female symbolism within art. ...
Cristina Camacho’s art operates on multiple levels, combining physical and conceptual layers that invite deeper reflection. By weaving canvas together, she encourages viewers to look beyond the surface and engage with the voids her work conceals. Her practice explores the intricate relationships between language, power, and reality, using subtle geometric forms and an absorbing emptiness that pulls one into the work. Camacho manipulates the canvas by cutting and reshaping it, transforming the traditionally flat surface into sculptural forms that expand its material possibilities. Her pieces function less as three-dimensional objects and more like delicate fabrics, dissolving boundaries between inside and outside. Through the interplay of lines and colors, she evokes the complexity, texture, and beauty of reality in a way that challenges conventional perception. Her work is a gesture of resistance rather than decoration. By cutting the canvas, Camacho disrupts established ideas about the body, patriarchy, motherhood, and painting itself. She redefines the surface of reality shaped by limiting language to create images that give expression to what has been silenced or ignored. Engaging with traditional female symbols, she reshapes their meaning through weaving, inviting viewers to confront what society and individuals have hidden. Her art stands as a powerful call for liberation and reclaiming ownership of what has long been denied. ...
Instituto de Vision is a Bogotá and New York based gallery for conceptual practices. Their mission is to investigate conceptual discourses that have been neglected by the official Latin American art canon. They have recovered important estates from the Latin American art of the mid century and continue to research the most enigmatic oeuvres of the region. Through a parallel program, they represent some of the most relevant contemporary practices from Colombia, Chile, North America, Venezuela, and others. Directed by three women, Instituto de Vision gives special attention to female voices, queer theories, environmental activism, the conflicts of migration, and other critical positions that challenge the established order. Using the international art scene as a platform, they are committed to give visibility and expand the work of artists that reveal critical realities and raise important questions for these contemporary subjects. ...
