Pia Camil: Fade into Black | Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

January 25 – July 15, 2018

Curated by Humberto Moro

SCAD Museum of Art presents Fade into Black, an exhibition by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. In her paintings, sculptures, performances and installations, Camil draws inspiration from the urban landscapes of Latin America and engages with the history of modernism. Often using laborious fabrication processes in collaboration with local artisans, the artist decelerates the frenetic pace of mass commodification with handcrafted production, as evinced in the intimate quality of her works.

Her new work for the SCAD Museum of Art comprises hundreds of castoff T-shirts in an expansive installation that is both artwork and wearable performative garment. Camil has recently expanded the scope of her practice to include theatrical environments that invite the viewer to navigate the exhibition space. Her imagery responds to retail spaces and the paneling used for merchandising displays, and explores the language of consumerism, drawing visual cues from dollar stores and decaying landscapes and translating them into desirable art objects.