Mercer Contemporary has recently featured our artist, Camila Varon in their “Artists to Watch” section. They discussed Camila’s working practice, themes in her work, and her upcoming future projects.
Camila was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and relocated to New York in 2013 to study architecture at Parsons School of Design, where she is presently completing an MFA. Over the last eight years, she has worked as an architect, designer, and artist in a variety of professions.
Her latest work is characterized by brightly colored paintings and surreal scenes created from memory, as well as site-specific installations and tiny objects that create a conversation between architecture and art.
Camila’s art is a statement on the significance of building our own universe in order to alter the one around us. Her art encourages the observer to enter her universe, filled with the nostalgia of childhood memories in the form of surrealist panoramas.