Pia Camil was born in 1980 in Mexico City, where she continues to live and work. Her work has been shown in Mexico, Colombia, France and the U.S. Through her work Pia Camil has shown a proclivity to failure or the decaying associated to the mexican urban landscape, aspects of modernist culture and traces of art history. Her practice has explored the urban ruin – including paintings and photographs of halted projects along Mexico’s highways (highway follies); abandoned billboards that become theatre-like curtains therefore theatricalizing failed capitalist strategies (espectaculares), or the problems and contradictions that arise when engaging with iconic art works (No A trio A or Cuadrado Negro).
Cuerpx insurrectx interespecie (serpiente)
Here comes the sun
Life
Todes No.2
bara, bara, bara
Túnica para mujer
Deshecha en hierba
Deshecha serpiente descolorida
Untitled
Split Wall
No A Trio A
Tlatelolco, Shot from a balcony
Telón de Boca
Creede II Interior
Aurora Scarlet
Entre cortinas: abre, jala, corre
TXT
DESHECHAS
Un paisaje nunca es inocente
Frieze LA 2023
arteBA 2014
Frieze New York 2015
Art Basel Miami Beach 2016
Frieze New York 2016
Art Basel Miami Beach 2018
Frieze New York 2018
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