Montserrat Camargo's work explores subjective perceptions in the construction of narratives through audiovisual media, installations, and language. Continuously doubting the veracity of her body, she uses the self as a starting point in a frantic need to collect evidence. Playing with poetry to complete the empty space, to recognize its insignificance. "I am here, I exist, and that is all". Sometimes she observes and registers, others, she invents characters and rules. And when she is no longer able to find herself, she inhabits the space encompassed by the walls of a room, the weight of the material and the exchange with the other. Frequently, returning to the concept of home as a metaphorical space of inexorable intimacy. "My house is diaphanous, its walls expand and contract as I wish; and its inhabitants, which are liquid, can be seen through its transparency. We are constantly eager, but paralyzed before the possibility of being seen". Camargo's research aims to deconstruct the believe of unilateral identity, as it is impossible to separate the being from its perception. She uses different ways of blurring the line between viewer, maker, and work. Playing and manipulating her life, in order to find a second of discomfort sparked from recognition of ourselves in the other.
BA Fine Art
2017 – 2021
Minerva Academy, Groningen, Países Bajos.
MA Creative Writing
2022 – ongoing
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Yo vivo Aquí
25 June – 20 August
Artist in residency at ARV. International Vishovgrad
Heerz Tooya Gallery, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Jugando a la casita
05 November – 18th December 2021
RAAHM. Leeuwarden, Países Bajos
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Detour. Graduación
17 – 24 June 2021
Suikerfabriek, Groningen, Países Bajos.
Green Lights
31 January – 05 February 2021
Herestraat 72, Groningen, Países Bajos.
Sentimental Preoccupations
28 May – 28 June 2020
https://sentimental-preoccupations.tumblr.com/
60ish third year expo
05 – 12 March 2020
Praediniussingel 59, Groningen, Países Bajos.
1/3 2 4 3D
03 – 06 April 2019
Praediniussingel 59, Groningen, Países Bajos.
Artwords
18 September 2018
NP3. Groningen, Países Bajos.
In Between
28 May – 03 June 2018
Galleria Unexpected. Groningen, Países Bajos.
Stardust and Chicken Soup
24 June – 02 September 2018
Synagogue, Groningen, Países Bajos.
OTHER
Asistent curator Trienalle exhibition
September 2021
SYB KUNSTHUIS, Friesland, Países Bajos.
24 hours artist residency
January 2021
SYB KUNSTHUIS, Friesland, Países Bajos.
Curator at Green Lights
January – February 2021
Herestraat 72, Groningen, Países Bajos.
Asistente and editor of photography
March – May 2020
Teddy’s Last Ride, Groningen, Países Bajos
Sound collaboration with artist Hendrick Hanstchel
November 2018
NP3 Groningen, Países Bajos
Takes a sip of your soul
Photo series.
May 2018
Malm Collection Loppersum, Países Bajos
PUBLICATIONS
Opinion article writer
June 2021-2022
HanzeMag
Stories from the red couch
April 2022. https://somethingtoconfess.substack.com/
Occupying Another Home
April 2022
Stichting Artistbook, Groningen, Países Bajos.
Now you see me, now you don’t
June 2021
Graduation Thesis, Minerva Academy.
You know how I feel about chicken pieces…
April 2021
Catalogue SYB Kunsthuis 24-hour residencies. Collaboration with Polina Shuvalova
The white week.
February 2020
SelfpublisheAR