Camila de Andrade Bianchi is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently a MFA candidate at Arizona State University and graduated with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2022. In 2021, she received the John Collier Photography Award, and her work has been exhibited internationally in the United States and Europe. In her multimedia practice, Camila works at the intersection of art, ecology, and pedagogy through performance, sculpture, and installation.
de Andrade Bianchi’s practice revolves around ecologies in which she investigates the potential of human and soil interdependence. In her work, she interrogates ideas of regeneration, systems of care, and interspecies communication. Central to it is the process of composting, which is characterized as a collaborator and educator in artistic making. Composting transforms rot into fertile soil as an intermediary agent between life and death.
Composting in her work is a method of developing literacies that facilitates an attunement of our senses to identify decay and to listen to the teachings of processing our material and ideological waste. In this context, composting is conceptualized as a praxis and a model for social and ecological regeneration that assists in the breakdown and return of decaying systems of capital back to the soil.
Using immersive forms of decomposition, her research and artistic practice take interdisciplinary and multimedia approaches such as participatory performances of sonic collective chewing and spitting, sculptural composting systems, and the playful use of alternative caretaking tools. Through this, de Andrade Bianchi aims to nurture an attunement to interdependent relationships, where communal acts of breakdown grant us the tools necessary to fertilize better futures.
Contact: camila.a.bianchi@hotmail.com
de Andrade Bianchi’s practice revolves around ecologies in which she investigates the potential of human and soil interdependence. In her work, she interrogates ideas of regeneration, systems of care, and interspecies communication. Central to it is the process of composting, which is characterized as a collaborator and educator in artistic making. Composting transforms rot into fertile soil as an intermediary agent between life and death.
Composting in her work is a method of developing literacies that facilitates an attunement of our senses to identify decay and to listen to the teachings of processing our material and ideological waste. In this context, composting is conceptualized as a praxis and a model for social and ecological regeneration that assists in the breakdown and return of decaying systems of capital back to the soil.
Using immersive forms of decomposition, her research and artistic practice take interdisciplinary and multimedia approaches such as participatory performances of sonic collective chewing and spitting, sculptural composting systems, and the playful use of alternative caretaking tools. Through this, de Andrade Bianchi aims to nurture an attunement to interdependent relationships, where communal acts of breakdown grant us the tools necessary to fertilize better futures.
Contact: camila.a.bianchi@hotmail.com