Néstor Camacho. Bogota, Colombia 1985
Multidisciplinary fine and visual artist based in Bogota Colombia. Through his digital and material pieces like paintings, sculptures, installations, interventions and videos, he questions the relation of society with formalisms such as work, formal and informal, its power structures, the ways of relations, behaviors and schedules. He establishes connections and analogies in order to generate critical approaches to dominant typical narratives.
Digital creator since 2010, he has been interested in new media and audiovisual production, being part of the direction and editing of video clips, performance recordings and urban action interventions. Specialized in 2D animation and art direction, video projection as a visual jockey, creating mappings for musical concerts, theatrical plays and corporative presentations on diverse stages. He has given several workshops and presentations in district establishments.
Also, his work has a parallel line, focusing on a colorful visual proposal with innovative ways of digital images, obeying his empirical formation, performing as a graphic designer and digital producer, areas in which he has elaborated physical and digital images, illustrations, and general content for several private enterprises and public companies as well.
Currently, he’s working on a new artwork curatorship, related to furnishing moving and haulages based on his personal and familiar life experience. He also still working as a digital creator exploring different software he is not used to operate such as touch designer and blender among others.
STATEMENT
My work has focused on the work, it refers to tasks execution that involve a physical and mental effort, whose objective is the production of goods and services that at some point in life we have attended from need, taste, obligation or vocation.
There are two aspects on this thematic axis: formal and automatic work, which establishes a series of formal and standardized rules pursuing a behavioral officialdom in the standardization of labor processes. On the other hand, in contrast, served by a majority population, there is independent and informal work, which does not meet a corporate agenda beyond the staff and is usually desalinated in a plurality of environments much more diverse.
Both types of work are consistent in essential aspects, constancy, discipline, effort, routine, investment of money, time and energy, commitments intended to exchange these conditions for a monetary amount representing economic remuneration.
Through techniques as diverse as divergent, urban intervention, video, drawing, painting and installation, I have approached this theme with various concerns and concerns that hides this idea of work as something sacred, as it is commonly referred to as a blessing, but also its equivalent interpretation, work as a punishment, an imposition and a curse. The promise of independence and freedom carries this duality which is paradoxical because it is also seen as a sacrifice.
Bogotá D.C. 24th August 1985.
ACADEMIA SUPERIOR DE ARTES DE BOGOTA
Universidad Distrital FJC
Fine and Visual Art Master
Digital and Ceramics emphasis
Bogota, 2014.
INFLUENCES:
Francys Allys (BEL/MEX), Graziano Ceccini (ITA), Iván Argote (COL), Ruslán Torres (CUBA), Marcus Kenney (USA), Mark Jenkins (USA), Felipe Pantone (ESP)
PRESS:
Revista LASTANA “LA MANIFESTACIÓN POLÍTICA DE UNA PUESTA ESCENA”
AWARDS:
‘Proyecto S.A. 2011’ CATEGORÍA ESTUDIANTES Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) Bogotá - COL (2011)
Experience
+ (2007) ‘Salón de Agosto 2007’ Museo Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
+ (2008) ‘Salón de agosto 2008’ Museo Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
+ (2009) ‘Arte de salida 7º Arte Diversidad 2008’ Casa Cuadrada.
+ (2009) ‘Urbescopio 2.0’ Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO)
+ (2009) ‘Proyecto S.A. 2009’ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
+ (2010) ‘8º Salón Nacional de Arte Diversidad 2009’ Casa Cuadrada.
+ (2010) Primer Salón Bidimensional Colectivo DISTOPIA Casa Cultural 15-16 (curador)
+ (2010) ‘Arte ≠ Vida - Un performance en tu ciudad’ Museo Banco de la República.
+ (2011) ‘Proyecto S.A. 2011’ Museo Arte Contemporáneo (MAC).
+ (2012) ‘10º Salón Nacional Arte Diversidad 2011’ Casa Cuadrada.
+ (2013) ’34 Versión Trabajos de Grado 2013 Proyecto Curricular Artes Plásticas y
Visuales Facultad de Artes ASAB – UDFJC’ Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Artes (LIA).
+ (2013) Ponencia Tesis Individuo-Sujeto, 1er Festival Nacional de Artes y Estéticas
Urbanas. (Manizales, Caldas-Col)
+ (2014) Ponencia Gonorrealidad, Foro Estudiantil Latinoamericano de Antropología y
Arqueología XXI (FELAA) (San Agustín, Huila - Col)
+ (2018) “Live Act” Presentación video proyección, Artka - plataforma música electrónica y creatividad digital. CineTonalá.
+ (2019) La Mala Junta Casa Jauría – Exposición independiente artistas egresados A.S.A.B.
+ (2019) Taller video-mapping. Encuentro nacional estudiantes de artes (ENEA) (Ibagué,
Tolima - Col)
+ (2021) Metanarraciones. Live cinema 50 años de la Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá.
+ (2021) Video-Collage “Capas en movimiento”. Taller teórico-práctico visuales con
Resolume. Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá.
+ (2022) Videomapping “Pintando con video objetos”. Taller técnico-práctico mapping con Resolume. Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá.
+ (2022) Laboratorio Taiba NFT Galería. Exposición Metaverso Next Age Gallery. España.
+ (2022) “Un pasado sin futuro” ArtBo Tutor. Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá.
+ (2022) “Domo Lleno Festival Audiovisual Experimental”. Planetario Distrital de Bogotá.
+ (2023) "New Comers Not Outsiders" AMA+ Artist Management Agency, Rotterdam, Holanda.