Diana Ocampo Estrada

RICARDO TOLEDO CASTELLANOS

Theoretical Artist. Bogotá, Colombia.

“MADREDIAGUA - Memoria Cristalina”

École Municipale d’Arts Plastiques Paul Belmondo. Centre Jean Vilar - Rosny, Francia.

“MADREDIAGUA - Memoria Cristalina”

Galería Casa Cuadrada. Bogotá, Colombia.

"Diana Ocampo travels to her maternal past in evocations of childhood that are partly forgotten but always cherished through the image of the Cristalina, birthplace of water, of childhood memories prior to the separation of water-divine memory and earth-human memory."

“TERRITORIO - Montaje Pictórico”

Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. Bogotá, Colombia

"Earth. There are certain intensities in these works where the gaze returns the landscape, experiences whose sensations retain residues of places, houses, corners, towns or cities; and appear in the paintings as discontinuous evocations or combining brushstrokes with traces and fragments of materials, the techniques of painting forced into experimentation with mixed techniques and above all collage."

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Dr. MILAGROS BELLO, PhD

Director and Chief Curator, MIA Curatorial Projects, Miami, USA

CROSS AESTHETICS “Serie: Soneto 97”

MIA Curatorial Projects, Miami, USA.

"Diana Ocampo Estrada is a Colombian artist who stands out for exploring themes related to memory, territory and identity. Her work often addresses the connection with origins and cultural roots, through an emotional and personal approach. She uses different media and techniques to express her concerns and reflections on the environment and the experiences that have marked her. In her works, elements that evoke nature and everyday life can often be seen, connecting the personal with the universal. Diana Ocampo Estrada is recognized for her ability to convey deep emotions and generate a dialogue between the viewer and the work."

AMERICAN VOICES - PERSONAL STRUCTURES 2022

European Cultural Center, Palazzo Bembo. En el contexto de la 59 Bienal. Venecia, Italia.

“Serie Soneto 97 - Díptico: “Y tú aparecerás en otra estrella” .

"Diana Ocampo on personal narratives and autobiographical recalls, displays photo-collaged childhood photos, and painterly erasures, over minimal white backgrounds, fading out and recovering in fragmented scenes, memories of her lost father. The artist, with a twist of introspection sets up the human sense of eternal ties."

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PIEDAD CASAS OTOYA

Curator-Coach of the artistic process “Painting through coffee”, 2020-2025, Artist DIANA OCAMPO, Bogotá, Colombia

“Painting through coffee”, 2020-2025.

Bogotá, Colombia.

"Colombian artist Diana Ocampo uses painting as her natural language and ideal tool to convey her passion for unraveling the cultural, geographical, and social codes of coffee-growing ecosystems. She draws strength from her ancestors to defend the territory, which she experiences in fragmented flashbacks associated with the memory of her father, whom she lost at the age of 10.
In her works, the space between artist and observer is mediated by the sensory filters of a life imbued with the notes, rhythm, and color of the coffee-growing environment. Her paintings emanate and awaken sensations related to humidity, earth, lush vegetation, natural spaces transformed by development, and traditional constructions that are losing strength to make way for cities. We can approach his work in three ways: through nostalgic perception, where mist, fog, and skies engage us emotionally; by awakening in the observer an awareness of a geography and nature that generates abundance and rural prosperity, where water and earth are symbols of life; or through the denunciation he makes in his works as a cry of alarm for the pain of the earth."

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