Camilo Pachón

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


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“Invisible Landscapes” (2023). Artistic actions and discussions in collaboration with Wayúu social leader Jakeline Romero Epiayú and Temporary Gallery, Cologne DE. Image © Camilo Pachón, Otra Pietá.



"Atún Jirru" (2022). Mobile device co-created through research, training, and participatory artistic practices between Volcán (Camilo Pachón and Maria Clara Figueroa) and the Collective of Communications for Biocultural Peace Ñambi Rimai. Presented as part of the 3rd Biennial of Arts and Design at UNAM, Mexico City. Image © Camilo Pachón.


"Más Allá del Disfraz" (2014–2025). Ongoing research on mythical characters that inhabit the streets of Barranquilla during carnival. Image © Camilo Pachón.

¨Making Worlds¨ (2024) a program co-curated by  Julia Haarmann Camilo Pachón for  Stiftung Küntlerdorf Schöppingen


“The spirit between the mask and your body” (2024) Performative workshop, part of the program of The Ancient Mask Temple. Gelsenkirchen.  Video © Shahab Kermani

¨Another Day Like an Alien" (2024). Performance in public space, part of the Healing Complex Takeover residency. Gelsenkirchen, DE.  Image © Urbane Künste Ruhr and Caroline Seidel.

“Trinitaria” (2017) and “La Raja en el espejo” (2016), exhibited in   Pasos Para trenzar un Paisaje (2024), curated by Maria Paula Bastidas, at Instituto de Visión, Bogotá .  Image © Instituto de Visión 
 
¨Los Hijos de ILU¨(2023)  
 
¨Revolution Should Be Masked" (2023 - 2025). Mono channel video for the exhibition,  ¨Even the gods have a Guayabo and dance reggaeton¨, at ATM Gallery Berlin.

¨Padre Montes: The spirits of the Páramo¨ Commissioned by Frente Cumbiero, 2018

¨DemBow - The Guardian of the Sun ¨(2023). From the series Looking for Light.  Part of the exhibition „Beside the Horse’s Neck“ at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.





















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