Camilo Pachón

 Exploring the power of art and community work as forces for social transformation, and the ancestral technology of the mask as a tool to deconstruct the hegemonic narratives of our contemporary reality.


About

Camilo Pachón
Bogotá, Colombia, 1985

Camilo Pachón is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working between Bogotá and Berlín. His practice explores the intersections of art, spirituality, and technology, delving into the edges of reality to generate new imaginaries and narratives rooted in ancestral knowledge and traditional practices.

Camilo creates actions, characters, objects, and communal processes that might seem commonplace in another dimension but, in this one, challenge hegemonic narratives of reality. His work delves into collective processes and the mask as ancestral technologies, tools that dissolve the self, transforming their contexts and enabling us to envision new worlds and establish new connections with people and ecosystems.

In 2024, Camilo was selected as a resident at the Healing Complex of Urbane Künste Ruhr and as curator of ¨Making Worlds Program¨ at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany. His work was chosen as one of the 10 Latin American projects for the Third Biennial of Art and Design at UNAM in Mexico, participated in collective exhibitions such as ¨Sembrando la Duda¨ at the Banco de la República in Colombia, the 18th Regional Salon in Colombia. His work has been exhibited in Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Ghana, France, and the United States.

Pachón has initiated various creative platforms to engage diverse audiences, including Crispr Bogotá, an artist-run gallery in Bogotá; AMA (Ambulante Más Allá), a nomadic filmmaking training program for documentary films in underserved communities across remote and rural areas of Colombia; and Carnaval Digital, the inaugural trans-local and networked space uniting artists and carnival collectives from around the world.