Pia Camil

The curtain works are abstractions from billboards. In Mexico, the urban landscape has been taken over by billboards and they have become totally integrated into the landscape. For me, it was very important to begin to document and start noting where there were spaces—I call them the blind spots of this mass culture where the eye could actually rest. I began to get more involved and interested in them. I like the sense of overuse and reuse of the panels of the billboards. I have spoken to other people in different countries and it seems only in Mexico are they built this way in a vertical panel fashion, where they get reshuffled and recycled.

I wanted this curtain to work as a screen, wherever you were positioned it wasn’t this flat thing on the wall but it would block the space, you could be either inside or outside the curtain. –Pia Camil