Camila Barreto’s work maps out a fertile territory where abstraction becomes body, material becomes memory, and the pictorial gesture is a vital act: a way to reinhabit the world through the fold, through silence, through what trembles.
Barreto's work is embedded in a multidisciplinary practice that focuses on painting and installation. Her language is one of abstraction, through which she translates her memories, life experiences, the ephemeral, and the permanent in a distinguished plasticity that has no visual reference in the chronology of art history.
Femininity, motherhood, and self-reliance are depicted through pictorial gestures and abstract forms that connect her inner self with the outside world.
Each of her series reflects poetic forms, ideas, and concepts grounded in profound personal experiences. Each of her artworks is a gestural manifesto, anecdotes inviting contemplation, reflection, and presence in the moment, appealing to their universality while acknowledging the individual nature of those who reflect upon them.
Through a steadfast and disciplined commitment to the arts, Camila Barreto has immersed herself in forms, colors, and essential gestures, enabling her to capture the essence of a new beginning in each of her works.
In her practice, painting is not an image: it is breath, a fold, a threshold, an insistence—a territory where experience finally finds a way to become a world.
