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235:(2010). Serpen River Book is a 72-page artist book combines Caycedo's illustrations and texts related to rivers with materials such as images, maps, poems, lyrics, and satellite photos, creating a collage reminiscent of the winding shape of a river. The content of the book is collected from Caycedo's work in communities in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico affected by the industrialization and privatization of river systems. The book explores the impact of river privatization and industrialization on rivers and the surrounding communities. 211:
interviewing people affected by the privatization of waters and the building of dams. The fishing nets would be dyed and assembled with the various objects in her Los Angeles studio. She dyed them 3 specific colors: black, red, and brown. These colors are supposed to reference the coloration of toxic
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Caycedo used the fishnets to symbolize an object that is the complete opposite of what a dam is. Caycedo told the New York Times, “The dam is corporate-made, impenetrable, unmovable It cuts the body of the river in two. It cuts the flow of the ecosystem. On the other side you have the fishing net,
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By 2014, 200,000 Colombian residents had been displaced under of the resource extraction projects along with the river, and privatization of the land, and Caycedo has been researched on the aftermath of the relocation to create this artwork. In 2019, she showed a performance piece,
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which is man-made, small-scale, porous, flexible, malleable. It lets the water through but catches the sustenance.” The fishnets are also a symbol of the livelihoods displaced by dam building and water privatization.
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consists of two massive photomontages made of composite satellite imagery of three major dam sites. The piece suggests a hopeful not toward the end of the capitalist model of resource extraction.
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without having any money or no essential goods. She lived day-to-day by offering people basic skills, such as haircuts or Spanish lessons, as an exchange for food or a place to stay for a night.
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as part of the institution's contemporary arts initiative called "/five." The nine-and-a-half-minute video features ghost-like dancers inhabiting The Huntington's collection.
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is a series of hanging sculptures made from handmade fishnets and other found objects. They were collected during her field research while she was at the
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mudflow created by the failure of the building of the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near
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in Colombia that are being affected by extractivist industries such as the construction of dams and the privatization of the river.
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Born to Colombian parents, Caycedo's art practice is based on environmental research focusing on the future of shared resources,
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Her work has been shown in museums around the world, including in a number of international biennales, such as the 2019
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Caycedo was awarded the “Five Initiative” from the Vincent Price Art Museum, in Monterey Park, California, and
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in New York City, New York (2018); the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea (2017); the
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Caycedo's work is included in several collections at major art museums including the
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In 2023-2024 residence in the Getty Research Institute.
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Caycedo received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the
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Caycedo has participated in group exhibitions at the
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in 2012, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the
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London
multimedia
Los Angeles
environmental justice
energy transition
biodiversity
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Hammer Museum
São Paulo Art Biennial
Havana Biennial
Whitney Biennial
Venice Biennale
University of Southern California
University of the Andes
Bogotá
The Huntington Library
Whitney Museum of American Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
AR
Nancy Baker Cahill
Scacco.
Hammer Museum
Magdalena River
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín
Magdalena River
Minas Gerais, Brazil
New York
London
Vienna
Huntington Library

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