Camila Rodríguez Triana

Camila Rodríguez Triana is a visual artist and filmmaker whose distinctions include the Best Art Installation Award at Panorama 21, Le Fresnoy (France), and the Emerging Artist Award at the Rencontres Artistiques, Carré sur Seine (France). She was selected as Carrie Mae Weems’s mentee for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2020–2022). Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), the Salon de Montrouge (France), and BAM Fisher, New York (USA), among others. Her films have been screened at major international festivals, including the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Doclisboa, and FIDMarseille.

At the Institute, Triana will be developing Reparando la palabra, an artist’s book that employs the language of weaving and embroidery as a reparative counterpoint to alphabetic and spoken forms of writing that have historically produced discourses of subjugation toward the feminine. The book narrates the journey of a mestiza woman—stitched together from fragments and enforced silences—who seeks to reclaim her identity beyond the frameworks imposed by structures of power.