About
César Cuspoca is a Colombian artist, based in France since 2012.
His artistic practice principally nourishes questions of perception, the duality between appearance and disappearance, and materialism and immaterialism. It is, however, more concretely the idea of experience which takes a central role in his approach and which allows him to structure his creative process.
The starting point for these experiences is often linked to the desire to explore unchartered territories, sometimes hostile environments, for example walking for hours over an icy fjord at -30°, getting lost inside the crater of a volcano, spending many weeks in an Amazonian forest among an American-Indian community, or visiting to the beach of an undiscovered village.
Throughout these experiences, whether alone or accompanied by a production and research team, he produces still images, videos, and sound recordings. He combines these gathered materials with elements of the local environment to build installations in situ which speak in the vernacular and have a resonance with the place where the work is both created and exhibited.
Exhibitions
El color de los tiempos
Group Exhibition
Consulate of Colombia
Paris
2019
Transplantes inorganicos de plasticidad severa. alta densidad!
Solo show
Valenzuela Klenner Gallery
Bogota
2019
International Festival of native american languages
Performance
Caro and Cuervo Institute of Philology
Bogota
2019
XI Regional Salon of Plastics Arts
Installation
Boyaca - Colombie
2018
Audio-Visual Festival MAMBE
Experimental film
Caqueta - Colombia
2018
Nuit blanche - un mur d’images
Collective Diaph 8
Paris
2018
A-n-d
Group Exhibition
ALMA Gallery
Paris
2018
Semaine des arts
Group Exhibition
Paris VIII University
Saint-Denis
2018
Month of the photo Grand Paris - Penser La Photographie
Art Center Synesthésie
Collective Diaph 8
Saint-Denis
2017
2019 MFA Contemporary Art and photography. Paris VIII University
2016 Specialization in Plastics Arts. Paris VIII University. CO
2014 Specialization in Humanities and Arts - Music and image. Paris VII University. CO
2011 Philology and Languages. National University of Colombia. CO
Education
Art residences and professional activities
Production art residence
Korebaju community
Caqueta Colombie
2018
Production assistant
Atelier Carlos Cruz-Diez
Paris
2017 - 2018
Performance and vidéo-installation art residence
Le Centquatre
Check Points
Paris
2014
Performance and installation art residence
The City Ghettos of today,
Check Points (France), Cantieri Meticci (Italie), Strefa Wolnostowa (Pologne).
Porte Dorée Museum
Paris
2014