STATMENT
My practice is shaped by the absurd economy of my own presence. In the United States, for a fleeting time, my breath, attention, and labor are suddenly worth more than they ever were at home, commodities I can bottle, measure, and offer. American companies outsource basic labor to my country, and separately, here they buy blood, plasma, and semen for the price of a month’s work back home. Why not try to sell CO₂? I will breathe for all of you.
Technology and nature enter as collaborators I cannot fully control. Tools built for productivity, surveillance, or control misbehave, revealing limits, absurdity, and small traces of agency. Materials sag, decay, resist, or fail entirely. I make work that insists on uselessness, labor that produces only itself, and gestures that wobble between comedy and desperation. The practice exists in this liminal space, temporary, contingent, a passing proof that I was here, breathing, exerting, attempting, even when the outcome is deliberately disappointing.
BIO
Nicolás Franco Zamudio was born in Bogotá Colombia in 1997, he has a degree in Fine Arts, with an emphasis on drawing and electronic media and a minor in Photography from the University de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
He has exhibited his work in national art spaces such as Artecámara at the ARTBO Art Fair and has received awards including the Uniandino Arts Award (PUA X) and the First ILDA Data + Art Prize.
Internationally, he has participated in forums at CICUS at the University of Seville, and has exhibited his work in Fukuoka, Japan; Rhode Island, United States; and in artistic residencies such as R.A.R.O. in Buenos Aires. He is currently an MFA candidate in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).