Biography

I am an Artefactian, a creative who base his practice on a close relation with traditional crafts and the embodiment and reinterpretation of different techniques to create new dialogues and aesthetic languages on my pieces. Profoundly influenced by my family’s craft, leather goods manufacture, my creative method is centre on the constant development of the relation between making, material experimentation, and time, during the manufacturing process. All these on connection with the evolution of myself as an artist during my creation practice.

Becoming rooted in the process of making drives my interests to materiality, sculpture and artefacts, getting particular attention for the human and organic morphologies.
My process can be divided into two main sections: first, an exploration and search around the concept of self-identity, the creation of a self-image. Second, a comprehension of the human body based on the relation between its internal and external structures and forms as a medium to question the traditional notion of body and its limits. These sections respond to a constant dialogue into my work about construction and deconstruction of the self, and its conception as a matter of constant change.

Website

www.gabrielcamelo.com