Portfolio
Mi Dulce Compañía ( My Guardian Dear)
Title: Mi dulce compañía Author: Azucaradas Collective ( Luisa Fernanda Cardenas, Camila Quintero) Duration: Aprox 5 mins. Medium: Performance Date: 2011
Mi dulce compaĂąia is a performance that explores female erotica and sexuality, using the intimacy of praying as a form of suggestion, aiming to construct an idea of seduction and erotism.
Poster and Sketchbooks Relationships with an unreturned love
Title: Series: Platonic lovers Size: Tabloid Medium: Mixed media Date: 2012
Using personal formats like sketchbooks, I explored quotidian experiences related with platonic love and romantic constructions around characters that represent an ideal lover. The fictional interactions with those characters creates a series of situations where love is proposed as an unreturned experience, one sided relationships that becomes brief narrations about expectations, attraction, fantasies and desire.
Title: Sketchbooks Size: Variable Medium: Mixed Media Date 2011-2012
The Affaire Tales of a fictional love.
Title: The Affaire Size: Variable Medium: Photography/ Photomontage Date: 2012
Deepening into the idea of platonic romance I explored the idea of the constructions made in popular culture around love and relationships, seeking to approach those ideals of love present in movies by introducing myself as part of those constructions, as a main character in the love stories I wanted to lived.
Grupo de Dibujo Art Collective The art collective Grupo de Dibujo was born under the interest to make the act of drawing a space of reunion, a possibility to share different approaches to drawing and, mostly, to articulate a methodology for collaborative creation, deepening in opening spaces where people can gather to draw with no specific knowledge or abilities in order to expand drawing as an essential activity that can allow integration. From: 2013-current days More about the project:https:// www.facebook.com/grupodedibujo/ http://grupodedibujo.tumblr.com
Colaboraciones Fanzine
Date: 2013
Blue Fanzine
Date: 2014
Jueves y Lunes Fanzine
Date: 2015
Virtual sessions
A strategy developed with the objective of generating different spaces of reunion that would allow other formats for sharing and interacting.
ยกA dibujar! Collective exhibition
A collective exhibition of the process of two years of work.
AnĂŠcdotas sobre el amante anhelado
Title: AnĂŠcdotas sobre el amante anhelado (Anecdotes about the wanted lover) Size: Variable Medium: Mixed Media Date: 2013
AnĂŠcdotas sobre el amante anhelado is an artwork integrated by three moments, all of them explorations about love as an experience to gather and share. The anecdotic element of the stories helps to articulate a series of brief personal love stories that seek to relate to the personal experiences of the audience, inviting them to interact with the artwork from their particular view in the three proposed moments.
Y‌ ¿ a ti te ha pasado?
Prebook event designed to explore how the context of the anecdotes could generate interaction with the audience. I asked the question: have this happened to you? using a text present in the book in order to start a conversation that leaded to a exploration of personal topics shared by the audience.
AnĂŠcdotas sobre el amante anhelado Illustrated book
From personal experiences a series of narratives are constructed from both text and image, using the book as a format to invite audience to have a personal interaction with it’s content.
AnĂŠcdotas sobre el amante anhelado Exhibition
The final exhibition of the process of creation collects the whole experience of the project, from the interactions with the audience to the personal content of the book in order to create a wider experience around love where the interaction with the artwork becomes a key part of the project. More about the project: https://issuu.com/mariacamilaquintero/docs/an__cdotas
Princesas destronadas (dethrone princesses) collaboration Title: Princesas destronadas Duration: 16:38 Min. Medium: Video and animation Year: 2014 Direction, and production: Luisa Fernanda Cardenas Screenplay: Luisa Fernanda Cardenas, David Molo Celis Illustration: Camila Quintero Animation: Clara Ines Velásquez Princesas Destronadas is a project about female rights explored in the context of the low income neighborhoods of Medellín. The aim of the project is to issue quotidian problems of teenage girls in Medellín by exposing them in order to create consciousness about the microagressions that young females can experience. More About the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxdCrmxqqRY , https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=JHktD3tx0pg
De los otros demonios Collaborative project De los otros demonios is an aesthetic dialogue about love, heartbreak and the effects of social media interaction in the dynamics of contemporary relationships, the work is composed by vignettes that address personal situations that goes from love, sex to heartbreak. Social media is used to share and generate response to the vignettes. More about the project: h t t p s : / / w w w . f a c ebook . c om/ delosotrosdemonios
Caminos cortos, Suspiros lagos Residency project
Title: Caminos cortos suspiros largos Size: Variable Medium: Illustration and photography Year: 2014
Caminos cortos, suspiros largos is a Project that explores love as a common experience that allows communication, from this particular possibility this project propose to involve the Taganga’s community with the artwork in a personal way, as their love stories become key to get to know Taganga. By interviewing volunteers who wanted to share their stories I made a route through Taganga, exploring the places where people fell in love as key points of the town. Using Illustration and photography as media I depicted places and facts present in the stories, aiming to capture the emotional realities of the protagonists, as well as my own emotions and connection with the places I visited. More about the project:https:// issuu.com/mariacamilaquintero/docs/ caminoscortossuspiroslargos
MedellĂn 1980-1990
Title: MedellĂn 1980-1990: 1952,1984, 1985, 1994 Size: Variable Medium: Illustration and Photography Year: 2015-2016
The project MedellĂn 1980-1990 is developed as part of a workshop about historical memories under the interest of inquire into the construction of memories from particular experiences associated with love in a context of conflict, exploring violent decades in the history of MedellĂn through the stories of 4 women that went through an intense experience of love and loss.