Camila Echeverria

Bio

Camila Echeverria is from Bogota - Colombia. She did her BFA at the National University of Colombia in Bogota and an exchange program in Sao Paulo - Brazil for six months in 2002. She taught art to children for 6 years in different schools, institutions and particular classes. She has one solo painting and photography exhibition in Bogota and 15 group shows in Colombia. She has participated in projects with other artists in London and Colombia. She is a second year MFA student at the San Francisco Art Institute with a Fulbright scholarship.

Statement

"NEW RESSOURCES" is part of the series of photographs I have been working with, since I came to San Francisco last fall 2006. I work with "portraits" of cities in which I am living, to put in evidence the particularity of my point of view as a Colombian Artist in different contexts (Bogota, Sao Paulo, San Francisco).

Reflection is the key word in my work: The "looking back" of the city's image, composed of people walking, buses passing, signals, and architecture, as they are reflected in the surfaces of the city. I use transparency and the reflection-shadow as a way of expressing the mirror that doesn't immediately judge. It reflects the image back, but what changes is the information each one discovers hiding in the image reflected.

Layers of information start being visible, creating a dialogue with the viewer and the urban environment. I don't see anymore just layers of images, reflections and melting forms as an aesthetic and visual experience, but a diorama: A transparent space where I am able to feel in between a metaphorical and emotional landscape. The transparency suggests permeability, a barrier that can be crossed or entered into a new one.

These 3 photographs are an example of interpretation of the same corner, building and window. Through different levels of approaching the image, we are able to see at last the worker and construction, superposed with the urban information and finally titled with the Bank name. This is the process of analysis my images want to push the viewers into, when they are reading the city of today.