About:
(Caracas, Venezuela 1994) Curielis is a Visual Artist and Designer who investigates the complexity of truth in a world where technology, communication, and social dynamics shape our perceptions, influencing our identity and the environment we inhabit. Influenced by her background as a graphic designer, art director, and photographer, Curielis employs codes from the field of communication to create fictions that generate dialogues about current realities, feasable futures, and possible aspirations. She currently lives and works in Milan. Curielis is Camila Curiel’s pseudonym.
Studio in Via Marco d'Agrate 33, Milan, IT.
Conceptual Compass:
There is no single truth; it only manifests when it is recognized and accepted by a group. Depending on the variables and context, truths can be multiple. There are irrefutable certainties, such as death, time, happiness, resources, and the awareness that we are awake. Today we live in a world where the shadows of Plato's cave—an allegory illustrating how people can be trapped in limited perceptions of reality—have multiplied exponentially. Escaping this cave has become an almost impossible adventure, as each person has made their own shadows real.
The impact of technology on contemporary society has turned us into examples of Nietzsche's "last man," a figure who lives a comfortable life without lofty aspirations that, when they exist, do not transcend individual benefit. Paradoxically, our caves are unique, tailored to our preferences and comforts, but at the same time, economic standardization—represented by "fast fashion," mass consumption, and the post-Internet era experienced in Western culture—has led us to gray and uniform behaviors. Although the possibilities are infinite, ironically we all dress and look similarly; the typologies of people become increasingly marked, polarized, and caricatured. This homogenization affects our identity and cultural diversity.
All of this is a consequence of the technology and communication to which we are exposed, shaping and defining us. Are we what we are or do we make ourselves? Who would we be in a year if we decided to isolate ourselves from constant overinformation? What would our new cave be?
Artificial intelligence is present today in the comfort of our homes, both voluntarily and involuntarily; it influences everything we do, whether by choice or because we are constantly being analyzed and categorized through algorithms on social media and recommendation systems. Life today is simpler than it was a year ago, but it also presents new complications. What is false and what is real? What can we consider authentic? Does our new digital assistant shape us or do we shape it? We could argue that everything we do today is a product of collectivity by including artificial intelligence tools since they generate results based on the input we provide as a civilization. How Westernized and biased can this intelligence be? Will clichés become more common than ever?
What if certain truths are omitted? What happens when they are not adequately propagated due to third-party decisions or are filtered? Can governments or unethical entities use relativism to create false (or true) perceptions that impact millions of people? If everything is relatively true for certain groups, do we live in a world devoid of facts and objective realities? Technology and communication, two deeply intertwined areas today, play a fundamental role in manipulating truth and proliferating false (or true) news. In contexts where certain truths cannot be expressed openly, there arises an urgent need to develop new languages that facilitate authentic and effective communication. It is essential to create open discourses, even secret ones, that allow for genuine exchanges of ideas.
As Nietzsche said, we have killed God; in his absence, we have created a closer, more attainable, and receptive god. Who will be the Zarathustra of our time? It is evident that those who define this new post-industrialism—post-Internet and possibly post-nature—are transformative agents in our lives. As the line between the real and the false blurs more and more, everything false contains a bit of truth since it is composed of all of us and everything we are, in bits and pixels. The secret of all that we were and will be is stored in a cloud; perhaps, as in Evangelion, we will eventually become one great collective consciousness or the resolution of Isaac Asimov's last question.
Today it has never been easier to create; anyone can—or believes they can—do it all. We live in an illusion of ease where the smartphone, the oracle we carry in our pockets, makes us believe that everyone lives perfect lives and that nothing is really that complicated; we are just one YouTube tutorial away from knowing how to do it. This perception of the average citizen, combined with the possible devaluation of human capital generated by overproduction and low costs driven by artificial intelligence, could push the field of communication toward a metrics-oriented market where craftsmanship will not be valued equally and quantity will prevail over quality. There will always be exceptions—and hopefully they will be the majority—but they will always have the answer and will be our new truth.
How can we train the machine to create a future we can be proud of? How can we build a truth to which we wish to belong?
Exhibitions & Publications
2023 Un Claro en el Dosel de la Espesura ︎︎︎ Galería Plurarte, curated by Efraín Ugueto, Caracas
2023 Autismo en Voz Alta ︎︎︎ Hotel Tamanaco, Caracas (Auction)
2023 Tiempos Híbridos ︎︎︎ UNIMET Caracas, Incubadora Visual
2022 Identidades ︎︎︎ Centro de Bellas Artes Maracaibo, Fundación Fenice Larralde
2022 Aleatorios ︎︎︎ Fundación Govea Meoz, Vortic.art
2021 Code Iconic ︎︎︎ The Holy Art
2021 Aleatorios ︎︎︎ Fundación Govea Meoz, Vortic.art
2021 Autismo dejando Huella → Garna Art Gallery, Madrid (Auction)
2021 Perspectives ︎︎︎ CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2020 Publication ︎︎︎ Porridge Magazine
2020 Publication and cover in ISSUE #6 (part II)︎︎︎ Ladies Drawing ClÜ
2019 Catalogo Iberoamericano de Ilustración ︎︎︎ FIL, Guadalajara
2019 NoThemeMiArt ︎︎︎Fabbrica del vapore, Milano
2016 MeridaFoto IV Photography Salon︎︎︎Modern Art Museum of Merida
2016 Incubadora Visual︎︎︎Galpones de los Chorros G11, Caracas
2015 Incubadora Visual︎︎︎Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia, Maracaibo.
2015 Alicia en el país︎︎︎Espacio Avaro Sotillo, Caracas
Education
2017-18 Master in Visual Design︎︎︎Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano
2014-15 Editorial Illustration Workshop︎︎︎Rosana Faria, Prodiseño, Caracas
2013-16 Illustraion and 2D Animation︎︎︎CDD, Caracas
2011-14 Photography︎︎︎Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografia, Caracas
(Caracas, Venezuela 1994) Curielis is a Visual Artist and Designer who investigates the complexity of truth in a world where technology, communication, and social dynamics shape our perceptions, influencing our identity and the environment we inhabit. Influenced by her background as a graphic designer, art director, and photographer, Curielis employs codes from the field of communication to create fictions that generate dialogues about current realities, feasable futures, and possible aspirations. She currently lives and works in Milan. Curielis is Camila Curiel’s pseudonym.
Studio in Via Marco d'Agrate 33, Milan, IT.
Conceptual Compass:
There is no single truth; it only manifests when it is recognized and accepted by a group. Depending on the variables and context, truths can be multiple. There are irrefutable certainties, such as death, time, happiness, resources, and the awareness that we are awake. Today we live in a world where the shadows of Plato's cave—an allegory illustrating how people can be trapped in limited perceptions of reality—have multiplied exponentially. Escaping this cave has become an almost impossible adventure, as each person has made their own shadows real.
The impact of technology on contemporary society has turned us into examples of Nietzsche's "last man," a figure who lives a comfortable life without lofty aspirations that, when they exist, do not transcend individual benefit. Paradoxically, our caves are unique, tailored to our preferences and comforts, but at the same time, economic standardization—represented by "fast fashion," mass consumption, and the post-Internet era experienced in Western culture—has led us to gray and uniform behaviors. Although the possibilities are infinite, ironically we all dress and look similarly; the typologies of people become increasingly marked, polarized, and caricatured. This homogenization affects our identity and cultural diversity.
All of this is a consequence of the technology and communication to which we are exposed, shaping and defining us. Are we what we are or do we make ourselves? Who would we be in a year if we decided to isolate ourselves from constant overinformation? What would our new cave be?
Artificial intelligence is present today in the comfort of our homes, both voluntarily and involuntarily; it influences everything we do, whether by choice or because we are constantly being analyzed and categorized through algorithms on social media and recommendation systems. Life today is simpler than it was a year ago, but it also presents new complications. What is false and what is real? What can we consider authentic? Does our new digital assistant shape us or do we shape it? We could argue that everything we do today is a product of collectivity by including artificial intelligence tools since they generate results based on the input we provide as a civilization. How Westernized and biased can this intelligence be? Will clichés become more common than ever?
What if certain truths are omitted? What happens when they are not adequately propagated due to third-party decisions or are filtered? Can governments or unethical entities use relativism to create false (or true) perceptions that impact millions of people? If everything is relatively true for certain groups, do we live in a world devoid of facts and objective realities? Technology and communication, two deeply intertwined areas today, play a fundamental role in manipulating truth and proliferating false (or true) news. In contexts where certain truths cannot be expressed openly, there arises an urgent need to develop new languages that facilitate authentic and effective communication. It is essential to create open discourses, even secret ones, that allow for genuine exchanges of ideas.
As Nietzsche said, we have killed God; in his absence, we have created a closer, more attainable, and receptive god. Who will be the Zarathustra of our time? It is evident that those who define this new post-industrialism—post-Internet and possibly post-nature—are transformative agents in our lives. As the line between the real and the false blurs more and more, everything false contains a bit of truth since it is composed of all of us and everything we are, in bits and pixels. The secret of all that we were and will be is stored in a cloud; perhaps, as in Evangelion, we will eventually become one great collective consciousness or the resolution of Isaac Asimov's last question.
Today it has never been easier to create; anyone can—or believes they can—do it all. We live in an illusion of ease where the smartphone, the oracle we carry in our pockets, makes us believe that everyone lives perfect lives and that nothing is really that complicated; we are just one YouTube tutorial away from knowing how to do it. This perception of the average citizen, combined with the possible devaluation of human capital generated by overproduction and low costs driven by artificial intelligence, could push the field of communication toward a metrics-oriented market where craftsmanship will not be valued equally and quantity will prevail over quality. There will always be exceptions—and hopefully they will be the majority—but they will always have the answer and will be our new truth.
How can we train the machine to create a future we can be proud of? How can we build a truth to which we wish to belong?
Exhibitions & Publications
2023 Un Claro en el Dosel de la Espesura ︎︎︎ Galería Plurarte, curated by Efraín Ugueto, Caracas
2023 Autismo en Voz Alta ︎︎︎ Hotel Tamanaco, Caracas (Auction)
2023 Tiempos Híbridos ︎︎︎ UNIMET Caracas, Incubadora Visual
2022 Identidades ︎︎︎ Centro de Bellas Artes Maracaibo, Fundación Fenice Larralde
2022 Aleatorios ︎︎︎ Fundación Govea Meoz, Vortic.art
2021 Code Iconic ︎︎︎ The Holy Art
2021 Aleatorios ︎︎︎ Fundación Govea Meoz, Vortic.art
2021 Autismo dejando Huella → Garna Art Gallery, Madrid (Auction)
2021 Perspectives ︎︎︎ CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2020 Publication ︎︎︎ Porridge Magazine
2020 Publication and cover in ISSUE #6 (part II)︎︎︎ Ladies Drawing ClÜ
2019 Catalogo Iberoamericano de Ilustración ︎︎︎ FIL, Guadalajara
2019 NoThemeMiArt ︎︎︎Fabbrica del vapore, Milano
2016 MeridaFoto IV Photography Salon︎︎︎Modern Art Museum of Merida
2016 Incubadora Visual︎︎︎Galpones de los Chorros G11, Caracas
2015 Incubadora Visual︎︎︎Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia, Maracaibo.
2015 Alicia en el país︎︎︎Espacio Avaro Sotillo, Caracas
Education
2017-18 Master in Visual Design︎︎︎Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano
2014-15 Editorial Illustration Workshop︎︎︎Rosana Faria, Prodiseño, Caracas
2013-16 Illustraion and 2D Animation︎︎︎CDD, Caracas
2011-14 Photography︎︎︎Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografia, Caracas
