Isabella Celis Campos | Visual Artist and Researcher

Isabella Celis Campos is a Bogotá-based visual artist and researcher whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of sustainability, decolonial thought, and socio-ecological conflicts. A graduate of Universidad de los Andes, Isabella Celis Campos has developed a unique artistic language that interweaves knowledge and multi-species perspectives across the Andes and the Amazon regions. Her work is situated within intricate natural, cultural, spiritual, and geopolitical systems, offering critical readings on development and political ecology from her specific situaded perspective. Central to her practice is the textile medium, which she views as a technology for inhabiting worlds and a means of clarifying thought through physical action. This is exemplified in her projects like Micorrizas textiles and Materialidad y simbología en los Quipus. Isabella Celis Campos is also the founder of Tura, an exploration studio dedicated to natural dyeing and experimental ethnobotany. Her methodology involves horizontal dialogues and collaborations with indigenous and peasant communities, often focusing on the resignification of maps and cartographies as tools for understanding territory. By integrating research and creation, Isabella Celis Campos addresses complex themes such as territorial whitewashing and the symbolic power of traditional crafts like the pushka. Her portfolio includes diverse works like El agua que me atraviesa pasó por este río and Muyu Seeds, showcasing her commitment to exploring environmental and cultural narratives through visual media and tactile textile art.