Performance and visual artist
Art Portfolio
Carlos Agamez
home/heimat
Home is the place where one knows oneself best; it is where one belongs, a space one longs to be.
Indeed, the longing for home seems to be grounded in an anthropological need for anchorage.
Although in English the German loanword ‘Heimat’ is often used synonymously with ‘home’, many would have claimed up till now that it has been a word particularly ill equipped for use outside the German speaking community, owing to its specific cultural baggage.
M reflects the exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space.
Selection of artworks
Images
Most relevant selection of artworks for this presentation
States In Conflict 2009, 2010
Alliance Française, Cartagena Colombia
Alliance Française, Valledupar Colombia
Series of 10 art pieces based on the side effects of the internal Colombian conflict. The Colombian maps show the routes of IDP’S (internally displaced people) and how they faced changes the persecution and forced displacement.
Transients 2011
A process with a community close to Cartagena, Colombia. During 3 months we worked with the community of San Jacinto making the sculptures and spending time with them to socialize and record the whole process . The sculptures were exhibited twice in public spaces.
Plaza De Los Martires, San Jacinto Colombia
A Little Piece Of Heaven 2014
- Bondi Pavillion Gallery - 2 Leves Gallery The Rocks - ANU, Canberra
A Little Piece of Heaven speaks to the viewer in terms that are distinctly Australian, through the poetic and lyrical ochre Eucalypt branches, uprooted and inverted, they float as if unable to connect with the land that sustains them.
I am here, I am Living 2015
Bankstown Arts Center
Sewing stories in fences, these stories of others coming from different backgrounds and that are fleeing from their home, voices that have been shutted and depreived of freedom are trapped in this installation.
A Place Called Home
2015
Creative Conversation, Annandale
An art installation based on my encounters with refugees and their concept of home, combining our dispair fate through a de-construction process of domestic elements. This artwork also mention with a slightly blurred line the inaccesible spaces that means home for some in the world.
Leader to Nowhere
Artist in residence at Myall Lakes by UNSW
Art Performance, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
The Severing 2023
Art Performance, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
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Severing 2023
Art Performance, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
Carlos is a Colombian interdisciplinary performance artist. His art reflects the exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space.
Carlos strives to make his art and the events he produces to current social issues of identity. It examines the lives of people who have lived in the diaspora. As an art educator hi focuses on the awakening of creative outlet for any individual mostly children and young population. Art, for him, is a crucial tool for raising awareness of certain topics and making them accessible to a larger audience. His performances are inclusive and immersive experiences. Not limited to the confines of the gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through arts education, interventions in urban space, and communities.
visual and performance artist / graphic designer
carlosagamezart@gmail.com
2018 - 2021
Sydney, Australia
2016 - Current Sydney, Australia
2015 - 2021
Sydney, Australia
2017
Sydney, Australia
2017 - 2019
Sydney, Australia
August 2017
Mayll Lakes, Australia
July - August 2013
Shoalhaven, Australia
2008
Cartagena, Colombia
2007
Cartagena, Colombia
+61 (0) 481 344 119
work experience
NUBO | Education Centre
art educator
Design lesson plans and deliver the art workshops for children age groups: 2-3 y/o3/5 y/o with their parents
Heartdancers NGO
artist liaison - freelancer
Coordination of the art programs, artist liaison for the indigenous artists and CALD community heartdancers.org.au
Ere Perez Natural Cosmetics
graphic artist
Design the visual digital content for social media and assisting public influence media relationships
ereperez.com
Uptown Festival, Pyrmont (West City Housing-UNITING)
artist producer
Production of the visual design content for the festival digital and print. Coordintion of the artistic events for the festival. citywesthousing.com.au/community-
Word of Mouth Book Guide to New South Wales
art director / curator
Art direction of the design and layout of the WOM travel guide book
education/residencies
T.E.A.R. The environmental art residency at Myall Lakes Host Hayden Fowler
Guests artists Joan Ross and Bonita Eli
BUNDANON TRUST, UNESCO-ASCHBERG busary artist 2013 Artist in residency
Art Appreciation Diploma
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University
Graphic Design BA
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University
@carlosagamez_art behance.net/carlos-agamez
exhibitions
March 2023
Sydney, Australia
August 2022
Melborune, Australia
January 2021
Sydney, Australia
October 2019
Sydney, Australia
September 2018
Marzamemi, Italy
April 2018
Sydney, Australia
November 2017
Sydney, Australia
July 2013
Sydney, Australia
October 2012
Cartagena, Colombia
May 2009
Cartagena, Colombia
The Severing | Art Installation Articulate Projects, Leichhardt
Dust to Dust | Video and photography Brunswick St. Gallery, Melbourne
Nowhere, Now Here | Video and photography Maritime Museum of Sydney
The Weight of the Stories We Carry | Performance AirSpace Gallery, Marrickville
Nowhere, Now Here | Screening Festival Internazionale Cinema di Frontiera
I live Here Now | Performance 107 Gallery, Redfern
Nowhere, Now Here | Perfromance Video AirSpace Gallery, Marrickville
A Little Piece Of Heaven | Art Installation Gallery Bondi Pavillion
Transeuntes | Public Installation
Estados de un Conflicto | Mixed Media Gallery of Alliance Francaise
references
Adam Lucas, Senior Lecturer Science & Technology Studies Program University of Wollongong alucas@uow.edu.au
Hayden Fowler, Visual Artist haydenfowler2@gmail.com
Sandra Morales, Founder Heartdancers sandra@heartdancers.org.au
Languages
Personal ethos
Spanish, English, Czech
Enthusiastic Integrity
Empathy Sociable Immaginative Responsible