"Silver Lining" by Cristina Camacho features an intricate interplay of neutral tones with hints of blue and gold, creating a captivating geometric composition. The artwork's sculptural quality emerges from layered canvas, with cut shapes forming a symmetrical design that evokes movement and depth. Camacho’s method involves cutting and weaving the canvas, breaking traditional flatness and suggesting woven textile textures. By manipulating materiality, she explores themes of hidden realities and societal constraints, inviting viewers to delve into what is unseen or silenced. This piece challenges conventional perceptions and reflects Camacho's exploration of language, power, and identity. ...
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. ...
