Camila Rodríguez Triana (Cali, 1985) is a filmmaker and visual artist. She obtained her BA from the Integrated Arts Program at Universidad del Valle in 2008 and completed her MA in Film and Contemporary Art at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France), where she graduated in 2019 with a Jury Mention. Her first full-length film, titled Atentamente (2016), was premiered at FIDMarseille (France), where it obtained a Renaud Victor award. Interior, her second full-length film, was premiered at DOCLISBOA (Portugal), and was nominated to a Doc Alliance Award. The film was also screened at CPH:DOX (Netherlands), DOK Leipzig (Germany), Doclisboa (Portugal), FIDMarseille (France), Jihlava IDFF (Czechia) and Visions du Réel (Switzerland). Her third full-length film, En cenizas (2018), was premiered at Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam and awarded a special mention from the jury. Her artwork has been exhibited at various international venues, such as Kiosko Galería (Bolivia), Galería No Lugar (Ecuador), Festival PROYECTOR (España), Salon de Montrouge (France), Museo La Tertulia (Colombia), Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori (Italy), Museum of the Moving Image (USA), etc. Currently, she works as Protégée Artist in the Department of Visual Arts with the artist Carrie Mae Weems, as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative award. She is also working in her next film, El canto del Auricanturi, produced by Mutokino.
The cover image belongs to her project Ejercicios de Memoria (2020), in which the artist works with three families who were displaced from their homes in Cundinamarca, Cauca and Valle del Cauca due to the armed conflict between guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the Colombian Army. For each family, the artist performs a memory reconstruction around their experience living in those territories and the process of displacement they went through. Based on this reconstruction, Rodríguez Triana creates three albums inspired in the story of the families. Through objects, images and thread, the albums reconstruct a memory map for each family. Each album is exhibited on an old table that has been rebuilt by the artist and that hangs on the wall. It is a table that allows us to feel how these families attempt to reconstruct themselves in the cities where they have arrived, and to face their territorial void and uprootedness.
Published: 2020-06-25