Pia Camil

Pia Camil takes a critical approach to modernism’s legacy, exploring themes such as US-Mexico relations, the politics of consumerism, and the invisibility of feminized labor, often articulated through imagery from the Mexican urban landscape. Recently, with emphasis on the importance of collectivity through public participation, she explores these territories through performance, painting, installation, sculpture, and film. The three chimney-like sculptures belong to a recent series of works Nidos (nests) which emerged from a year-long period of research into natural instances of collective intelligence and the building of symbiotic architectures. Camil’s sculptures explore the concept of the nest, focusing particularly on the termite nest as one of the architectural wonders of the living world. These forms reference collective creation but also the act of getting tied up, symbolizing a speculative fabulation capable of serving as material-semiotic maps to other worlds.