Image by Helen Korpak
Gladys Camilo (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres on sustainability
and the natural world. Camilo’s work investigates how care—both as a labour and a material—shapes
personal and collective identities.
Her work is guided by an intuitive and emotive approach, often incorporating upcycled materials
and natural dyes. In addition to her visual art, Camilo is a cultural worker and DJ whose projects
foster reflection and dialogue around care, identity, and collective well-being.
She is currently a member of Feminist Culture House ry and MYÖS ry.
I create from the spaces in between reality and the subconcious, the self and the other.
My practice is situated in care for the self and the material; care as a method drawn from m/othering: a
generative yet complex space where creation, trauma, and healing converge.
I am guided by intuition, memory, and emotion, with the belief that materials, like people,
have memories. It is the material and its processes that carry context, while I act as a
vessel that interprets and brings forth its fortunes.
I collect and I archive materials, relics, family photographs—these fragments serve
as a starting point. Through them, I reassemble memories and reimagine forgotten
feelings into new, otherworldly realities.
Within my practice, I allow space for interpretation, ambiguity, and emotion.
My textile sculptures and paintings act as carriers of these layered narratives,
holding both tenderness and weight.
This work is a living record of care, trauma, and imagination.
It is a conversation with ghosts, a reweaving of identity and an offering to the future.
