In my current work I pay attention to the use of materials, tools, and labor in domestic architecture construction sites.
I am interested in the aesthetic appearance of discarded materials, seeing the traces they have been collecting through their history of manipulation as signals of the existence of a forgotten energy.
While assembling those materials, I refer to alternative imaginaries and constructs in which different worlds interact, revealing part of the identity of materials and places, and its relations of power.

Bio
Gerardo Camargo was born in Mexico City. He began working as a cartoonist at the age of 12. In 2004 he founded Zarco Gallery, an independent space for contemporary art that offered a program focused on involving the artist community with local processes in the society. In 2002 he was selected by the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts as a Promising Emerging Artist.
His work has been shown in galleries and museums in Mexico and the United States, including: Latin Perspectives, Maryland Main Hall, Annapolis MD, 2022, Aceptar, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington DC, 2020; Underlying Borders, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., 2019 After Eden, Siqueiros Museum, Morelos, Mexico, 2016.
His art is part of numerous private collections as well as part of the permanent collection of the RISD Museum.