NATALIA CAJIAO
Bogotá 1979, vive y trabaja en Cali.
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He studied at the Complutense University of Madrid, at the Los Andes University in Bogotá and at the Sotto Tetto Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. She obtained the title of Teacher with pedagogical aptitude capacity at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He has received important distinctions such as the National Prize for Photography Without Format 2005 of the Ministry of Culture, Artist selected to exhibit at the CCCB -Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona- at the Festival of Contemporary Art of Barcelona -BAC- 2003 and obtained the Registration of Honor from the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Fine Arts in 2002 and 2003. He is currently a professor of Photography, Color Theory, Drawing and Painting at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali. His work has been selected to be exhibited in individual and group exhibitions in different national and international institutions and art galleries. He has participated in international festivals and art fairs.
Natalia Cajiao's work is characterized by the construction of geometric shapes, creating a matrix or fabric from registered images and elements found in the urban landscape and in nature. It uses different types of materials, paints and techniques of engraving, printing and photography. Each image is unique, however there are patterns and structures that are repeated creating other derivations and relationships between them. These languages support her vision of the universe with vigorous lines and strokes, revealing the strength and internal determination that move her to represent between the figurative and abstract in harmony and tension the cosmetic forces of creation.
For Natalia, the pleasure of creating is linked to observing and perceiving her surroundings through her personal search and the trips she has made to Colombia, India, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, France, Sweden, Norway, England, Italy, China. , Morocco, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, the United States, among others. This travel experience has been vital for his artistic work, providing him with an extensive photographic archive that he continues to explore and nurture. In his travels he also seeks to know history, people and popular culture, a subject that he is also passionate about and interested in for his artistic projects in the field of urban anthropology. Thanks to his walk observing the world and seeing beyond the individual in his journey through places, homes and social groups, he has managed to study urban systems, beliefs, ways of life and compare them with those of his country of origin, Colombia, expanding his vision of the human being and his world.