ARTIST PROFILE

Carolina Acosta

  • Colombia (b. 1979 in Barranquilla)
  • Currently in Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Political art is not necessarily political image.

ARTIST STATEMENT

For a long time I was trying to turn words into pictures, but now I dedicate myself to the opposite: treatment of the images "speak" instead of words. I even tried that images do not "speak".  It has been hard: maybe this process is my best art work.


BIOGRAPHY

Carolina Acosta has participated in several videoartistic festivals in Colombia and other countries like Ecuador, Cuba and Spain. His work has been part of numerous group exhibitions in Colombia.  She do  works in diverse media such as painting, photography, video and engraving. Although until recently was considered itself like an video artist, currently engaged in university teaching and returned to painting in Bogotá, where she lives.