Camila Rodríguez Triana

Biography

self-portrait © Camila Rodríguez Triana

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Camila Rodríguez Triana (Cali, 1985) is a filmmaker and visual artist, descended from the Mhuysqas, the indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, who formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. She graduated from the Faculty of Integrated Arts at the Universidad del Valle in Colombia and completed a Master’s Degree in Film and Contemporary Art at Le Fresnoy, in France.

Les Amis de Fresnoy awarded her the prize for Best Art Installation in the exhibition Panorama 21. She was selected as a Visual Arts Protégé for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 20-22 program by Carrie Mae Weems and was nominated for the Emerging Artist Award from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. She also won the Emerging Artist Award during the Rencontres Artistiques, Carré sur Seine in France, and the Artecámara Emerging Artist Award, ARTBO 2020, Colombia.

Her artistic work has been presented in different places such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (GR), 65 Salon de Montrouge (FR), BAM Fisher NYC (US), Park Avenue Armory NYC (US), Brown University (US), PS122 Gallery, The National Academy of Design, NYC (US), Bienalsur (AR), Museo Cívico Giovanni Fattori (IT), Museo de la Imagen en Movimiento (US), among others.

Her first feature documentary entitled Sincerely (2016) was premiered at FIDMarseille (2016). This documentary won the Renaud Victor Award at FIDMarseille, the Best Documentary Award at Lisbon International Film Festival, Spring Edition, and the Jury's Special Mention at festivals such as MARFICI, It's All True International Documentary Film Festival and the Festival International du Cinema d'Alger. Her second feature documentary entitled Interior (2017) was premiered at DOCLISBOA. This festival nominated this documentary for the Doc Alliance Award. It also won the award for Best Ibero-American Documentary at the Lima Independent Film Festival and was acquired by WDR-Arte, Tënk, INDEWALL. In 2023 Triana premiered her first feature fiction film The Song of the Auricanturi at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival -KVIF.

Practice

Camila Rodríguez Triana, Ukhu Pacha, old books about the colonization of America, golden metallic thread, needles, earth and mud, wood, 130x200x200 cm, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

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"My work is constructed as a ritual of reparation, each work is an attempt to repair an invisible identity, a memory, an inheritance of pain, violence and submission, with the hope of inheriting to a new generation a world more humane.”

Through film, performance, and installations, Triana revisits her ancestral territory, carries on their rituals, and questions the relationship between identity and memory.

Works