PIA CAMIL

Pia Camil was born in 1980 in Mexico City , where he currently lives and works. His work is displayed in several countries , among them Mexico , Colombia , France and the United States. Among many other things, through his work Pia Camil explores aspects of the urban environment and tries to account for the decline it has suffered as a result of the excesses of modernist culture. His practice as a visual reference making the context of the city of Mexico and , in order to reflect on the failure of the capitalist system , recreates and dramatizes the symbols and meanings of the city. Some of the more recent examples of his work are his Entrecortinas series , dyed and hand stitched fabrics as curtains , through which Pia camil recreates the visual image of the spectacular that often left abandoned in the streets of the city .