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LONDON
2017
GEOFENCING
Slade School of FIne Arts
Slade School of Fine Art, London, United Kingdom.
456 Nylon wires and nails 4x7x3m 2017
Geofencing is an almost invisible installation. Clear nylon wires emerge from the England flag (Saint Georges cross) creating an impenetrable space.
The flag of England is associated, in the context of the United Kingdom, with the right-wing currents linked to nationalism and racism. This work generates a symbolic space in which the geopolitical boundaries that this national emblem represents are visible. Geofencing, metaphorically replicates in space what happens with identity symbols, while creatingcommunion, generate exclusion for those who are not part of them.
They create impenetrable territories of which their limits, although intangible, are access barriers linking.
ARTIST:
CAMILA LOBOS

Camila Lobos Díaz lives and works between London (UK) and Santiago (CL). She obtained her BFA degree from the Catholic University of Chile (2013) and an MFA Sculpture in Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2019). Her work, mainly three-dimensional, is about making the socio-political-cultural context visible. It explores the relationship between power and visibility. Her current research is developed in the intersection between art and human geography extrapolating her research around periphery, marginality, and invisibility to global processes linked to migration, power centers and costs of progress in less developed countries. Camila is a winner of the Chilean National Cultural Council Grant: FONDART (2020) and (2018); Santiago Municipality Visual Art Awards 2017 (Chile); Slade Bursary 2017 (UK); “Art and technology” Award, Telefónica Foundation 2013 (Chile); LENOVO Art Prize, 2012 (Chile). In 2017 she received the Yitzhak Danziger Scholarship to undertake the MFA degree at Slade School of Art in London. She has been nominated for different awards such as Red Mansion Art Prize 2018 (UK - China), UCL Museum/ Slade Collaboration 2018 (UK).
Camila has been recently appointed as the new Artist in Residency at Carpintarias Sao Lazaro Lisbon (2020, Portugal) and awarded the Gulbenkian Grant by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2020 she was granted a Residency program at Berlin Sessions, (2020, Germany). She has been commissioned by Tate Modern Museum to develop a special edition of Christmas cards (2019, UK). In 2017 she was commissioned by the Chilean Ministry of Culture and Arts to create the Public Art Project “El Lugar de la visibilidad” (Chile), and in 2016 was awarded a grant to develop an Artist in Residence program by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria). Her work has been widely shown individually and collectively in Latin America and Europe. An example of this is her participation in spaces such as Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile), Telefónica Foundation (Chile), Galería Bech (Chile), Facultad de Artes ASAB Universidad Distrital de Bogotá (Colombia), Kunstraum Niederösterreich Museum (Austria), Gallery Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 (Austria), 12th Havana Biennial (Cuba), L.A. Art Show (USA), Woburn Research Centre, Creekside Gallery (UK) and Hinterland Galerie (AT).