Camilo Bojacá
Bio
Camilo Bojacá (Colombia, 1985) is a visual artist graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2005). In his practice he explores and mixes different media and techniques that find their inspiration in the landscape and the territory, in such a way that the relationship between development, urban expansion and environment is explored. His delicate pencil drawings, scaffolding made of graphite mines or cement sculptures with bonsai invite us to rethink the role of people as inhabitants of the world.
His constant interest in subjects such as landscape, nature, architecture and the city have resulted in projects such as Weed Garden and Scaffolding where he questions the way we are assuming the city and affecting the natural environment. His work proposes a hybridization where the built and the natural coexist in mutual benefit.
His works can be found in institutional art collections such as the Museo de Bogotá; and private collections such as Claudia Hakim, José Darío Gutiérrez and Alejandro Castaño in Bogotá; or Dario Samada and Susana Fontanals in Miami.
Statement
Camilo Bojacá (Colombia, 1985) presents Vulnus, a project in which the naked and defenseless body of a woman is a symbol of a conquered, excavated and violated territory. The body is then the scene of depredation, it is the landscape domesticated through the transforming force of the machine, which imposes itself in a clear exercise of power. These territories suffer the large-scale intervention that we humans carry out.
The wound (vulnus) is the trace of the intervention on that body-territory, it is the sign of a biopolitics that misconducts, domesticates and alters it. Thus, the struggles and resistances from the body are none other than those of the territories to keep themselves alive and stable, thus understanding themselves as part of a symbiotic system.
