Camila Palomino will write a series of texts about artists and architects who work in subversive forms of large-scale urban intervention, muralism, and graffiti across interconnected sociopolitical struggles. Drawing on examples including anti-imperialist murals made through solidarity arts brigades in 1970s Nicaragua and public works by Peruvian artists protesting Alberto Fujimori’s government, Palomino will examine how regimes perform state power and securitization, and how the latter is aesthetically conceived and contested within urban space.
Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from Queens, New York. Her writing and interviews have appeared in publications including Art21, CURA, Mousse, and Topical Cream. She co-edited “Retail,” the fifth issue of the fashion criticism journal Viscose. Palomino has organized exhibitions and programs at Abrons Arts Center, SculptureCenter, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New York; Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem; and NTS Radio.