Exhibition: On This Body / Camillo Londoño Hernández

*In English

Exhibition opening: Monday, 20 October, 19h
Exhibiton on view: 20-31 October, Mon.-Fri. 10-19h

To invoke the experiences of inhabiting cruising bars and gay saunas in Medellin, Colombia, Camilo Londoño Hernández decided to scan himself. Using the double meaning of dark room, he overlaps photography and literature to portray his sexuality as a cuir (queer) person living with HIV. He brushes his skin with light and words to grasp the traces of pleasure, love, desire, and loneliness.

Without binding, the pages of this book presents the body itself for everyone in an exercise of poetic montage in the PROSTOR Gallery space. As a result, the artwork becomes a fragmented photo poem, a dark box, and a book installation. It appears as an intimate and visual text where a queer gaze transits toward the public and avoids order or chronology. Here, Camilo explores the fear of being touched and transforms it into the desire for touch.

Camilo Londoño Hernández is a Colombian cuir (queer) writer, visual artist, and independent curator based in Germany. As a constant game of moving words and images, his work plays with the borders of literature to open cracks of affection, sexuality, pleasures, and power. Among the intersections of writing with cinema, photography, and performance, the artist portrays personal stories seeking fractures inside patriarchal discourses. For the last few years, living with HIV has shifted his art practice to reflect on the tensions of body, language, and space. Hence, through methodologies and mediums of reproduction and rearrangement, the artist creates textual and viral publications such as artbooks, performative readings, films, short stories, visual essays, and poems. His expanded literature wonders about viruses as metaphors, cities as organisms, streets as stories, poetics of daily life, and the motions of intimacy and grief.
Camilo Londoño Hernández graduated with a master’s in fine arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus Universität- Weimar (Germany).