Camila Arévalo (she/her) was raised in the mountains of Ibagué, Colombia, beside a creek, and among the guava and almond trees, carpets of rose apple, and pringamoza leaves.
Camila is an animal, transexual, and visual artist working at the intersection of performance, video, photo, and installation — or, as a mentor once called her, a multi-headed dragon. Her practice crawls through the performance of everyday life, the illusion of the “postcolonial”, the metaphysical belief in humanities natural position of privilege over the planet, and the body as a stage where power is exercised, negotiated, subverted, and eroticized.
For her, power is medium. At the core of her practice lies a pursuit of animality: a becoming-horse that overtakes her body and offers an escape route from the cages of “man” and “woman.” This pursuit of animality and an ongoing inquiry into post-human subjectivity fuels her method of auto-theorizing and weaponizing her experience as a trans woman.
Featured Artworks
Untitled, 2025
Light installation and performance
Image by Vanessa Lara
Untitled, 2025
Light installation and performance
Image by Vanessa Lara
Dagger and Wound, 2025
Performance and installation
Image by Vanessa Lara
Colostrum: On Performing a Miracle, 2026
Photo, video, and sound
Image by Jaeden Hannus
White Horse: Made of Pink American Flesh, 2024
Photo performance
Image by Evan Liner
Centaur 2, 2026
Installation and performance
Image by Andrés Burgos
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Horsepower, 2025
Video performance