As an artist, my work has been featured within several cultural institutions in Europe and Latin America like KV Leipzig, Gorki Theater Berlin, queer anArchives of Split in Croatia, the Bauhaus Museum of Weimar, the Kunstsammlungen Museum of Chemnitz in Germany, the San Telmo Museum of San Sebastian in Spain, the Spanish Cultural Centre in Costa Rica, the Cinemateca de Bogotá and Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Colombia, among others.
As a curator, I have collaborated in exhibitions and programs across diverse institutions, including PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts in Canada (2024–2025), Experimental PhotoFest Barcelona and Filmoteca de La Rioja in Spain, and the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín. Since 2024, I have also been the art director of efímera, an independent publishing house focused on expanded photography. Our projects have been part of Spine Book Forum at Liste Art Fair Basel, Switzerland; Entretener, III Biennial of Contemporary Books in Paris, France; the Photobook Leipzig Fair in Germany; and the Bogotá International Art Fair, ARTBo 2025.
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Since 2023, I have been the co-founder and member of abraso, the Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices. In recent years, our projects have been supported by Pontificia Javeriana University, the Ministry of Culture in Colombia, and the Goethe-Institut. In 2025, we collaborated with the Humboldt-Universität to present an interdisciplinary project between arts and sciences at the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival in Berlin.
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I am a Colombian cuir (queer) writer, visual artist, and independent curator based in Germany.
I am a member of abraso art collective and co-director of .efímera publishing house.
Education
•2023. MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Bauhaus-Universität. Weimar, Germany.
•2015. BA Social Communication & Journalism. Medellín, Colombia.
•2014. Research internship. Institute of Aesthetic Research (IIE). National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
As a constant game of moving words and images, my work digs into the cracks of affection, sexuality, pleasures, and power. In the intersections of writing, cinema, photography, and performance, I portray personal stories —myself and others— seeking fractures inside patriarchal discourses. For the last few years, living with HIV has shifted my art practice to reflect on the tensions of body, language, and space. Hence, through methodologies and mediums of reproduction and rearrangement, I create textual and viral imagery such as artbooks, performative readings, films, short stories, visual essays, and poems. My research wonders about viruses as metaphors, cities as organisms, streets as stories, poetics of daily life, and the motions of intimacy and grief.
Exhibitions
Solo
2025
•On This Body. queerANarchive. Prostor Gallery. CultureHub. Split, Croatia.
•INTERFEROMETER. With abaraso collective. Parce Art Initiative. Goethe Institut. Ghent, Belgium.
2022
•Body translations. AIDS-Hilfe . Weimar, Germany.
2016
•Fragments. Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote. Mexico City, Mexico.
•Objects that did not exist. IV Edition. Gallery L. Mexico City, Mexico.
Group (Selected)
2025
•Unerhört. Sex as an artistic practice. KV. Association for Contemporary Art. Leipzig, Germany.
•RE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE. Kiosk for a Magic Future. Imaginary Collective. As part of the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon. GORKI Theater. Berlin, Germany.
•Afectos&Correspondencias. Gallery of Casa Museo Otraparte. Medellín, Colombia.
•Fluid Interdisciplinarities. With abraso collective. Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany.
•Flesh&Form. MRKT Gallery Berlin, Germany.
2024
•Entretener. III Biennale du Livre Contemporain. Assoouvrelesyeux Gallery. Paris, France.
2023
•Temporary narratives of an imminent future. Building Bridges Art Exchange. Los Angeles, USA. // Cultural Center of Spain. San José, Costa Rica.
•23 ideas Bauhaus. RGaswerk Gallery. Weimar, Germany.
2022
•North East South West. Robotron Kantine. Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany.
•Lost in translation. Part of Sprache. Bauhaus Museum. Germany.
•Lucíferas. Indirect tribute to Pasolini. Cinemateca de Bogotá and Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Colombia.
•Unter den Nägeln. Thüringia Municipality. Erfurt, Germany.
• Du kannst das tragen. Kunstsammlungen Museum. Chemnitz, Germany.
2016
•56-92. The encounter of an artistic generation. Academia San Carlos, Gallery of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Mexico City, Mexico.
2012
•Pantalla Global, (Global Screen). San Telmo Museum. San Sebastian, Spain.
2025
•The slowly growing sunset of a summer evening. PLATFORM Centre for Photography. Winnipeg, Canada.
2022
•Among bodies. Cultural Center, Centro Civic Pati Limona. Experimental PhotoFest. Barcelona, Spain.
2018
•Sabotage. Lokkus Gallery. Medellin, Colombia.
•My dad, my Frankenstein. Un Nuevo Error, Medellin, Colombia.
• Land of Strangers. Pontificia Bolivariana University (UPB). Colombia.
2016
•I have others lands on my feet. Museum of Art of Jericó, Antioquia –MAJA, Colombia; and Tambo Quirquincho Museum in the frame of the Fotofest Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia.
•The man who crossed the world. Lokkus Gallery. Medellin, Colombia.
Art Residencies
2025
•Curator in Residence. PLATFORM Centre for Photography. Winnipeg, Canada.
•Culture Moves Europe. With abaraso collective. Parce Art Initiative. Goethe Institu. Ghent, Belgium.
•In Situ Festival. With RITA Art Colelctive. Assoouvrelesyeux Gallery. Bazancourt, France.
2020
•Residencias Walden. Film projects development. Barcelona, Spain.
•Self-lockdown residencies. Accompaniment for artists (online). Plataforma Caníbal, Colombia.
2015
•R.A.T., Independen Art Space. Mexico City, Mexico.
Publications
2022
•The dogs wait under the shadow. Collection of short-stories. Press: La Bruja Riso. Award-wining: Grant for creative projects. Ministry of Culture of of Colombia.
•Pillbox. Booklet. Part of “Body translations”. Printer: Bauhaus Universität. AIDS-Hilfe Foundation. Weimar, Germany.
•On this body. Artist book. Efimera Press. Printer: La Bruja Riso. Colombia.
2018
•Analog Hermenutic. Structure and dynamism. Essay. Book chapter. Press: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa.
2017
•Communication: images, imagery, letters, and opinions. Essay. Press: Editorial UPB. Medellin, Colombia.
•The walkers. Artist Book. Self-publication. Medellin, Colombia.
2015
•Fragments. Artist Book. Printer: La Casa del Hijo del Ahuizote. Mexico City, Mexico.
•Words of cinema. Essay. Press: Editorial UPB. Medellin, Colombia.