Carolina Agüero
Bio
Camilo Ortega Prieto, (Iquique, 1985) Visual artist with studies in engraving at School
from BB.AA of Viña del Mar and in contemporary graphics at the UNLP La Plata, Argentina. He has been part of the management of a series of projects that make social problems visible and territorial areas of the Tarapacá region. In 2013, together with more art agents, I founded the artistic thought and action platform CAPUT. His work has been acquired by individuals, as well as by public collections such as the Ministry of Cultures during 2020. In addition to being exhibited at the National Museum
of Fine Arts, National Center of Contemporary Art, Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Center
Cultural of Spain. Likewise, the participation in the French magazine Artpress stands out, in
the space Todo Por la Praxis - Madrid, as well as in Kiosko Galería - Bolivia, and in the
Documenta 15 festival. Kassel - Germany.
Statement
The mysteries in Camilo Ortega's work come from his fascination with the immensity of his local landscape, in the Atacama Desert, versus the minuscule nature of the human being.
This attempts to revive it by creating fictional spaces and narratives accompanied by various plastic processes where low-cost materials and artisanal means of use are used.
popular. All of this means intensities linked to play and freedom as a political commitment in the face of a reality extremely fissured by the domains of reason.
“My relationship with art takes place with the possibility of imagining worlds, searching through different dimensions, elements and themes, to subvert the order of things as a response to hegemonic forces. I am interested in discovering and recognizing the irony of
everyday life, the attempts at survival and the fantasies of progress that occur in the territory that I inhabit and from where I genuinely dialogue with the world.
Between the homemade and the industrial, my objectives aim to generate dissonances about reality, provoking contradictions through images, objects and actions that allow me to symbolically communicate power as a mobilizing force of stories, and its multiple ways of violating and subduing the bodies.”
Additional information
Bañistas es una serie conformada por 17 acuarelas pintadas sobre papel Canson Edition de 250 grs.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
