Mexico City-based artist duo Celeste, Gabriel Rosas Alemán and María Fernanda Camarena, craft fabric-based installations across galleries, museums, and community spaces. The duo recently unveiled an outdoor installation at The Bentway in Toronto entitled Sun/Shade, which will feature community workshops and performances throughout the summer. On June 12th, a few days before the closing of their first solo exhibition with Rebecca Camacho Presents, Babatunji Johnson and Marusya Madubuko will stage a dance performance in response to Celeste’s installation.
Inherently collaborative, their work lends itself to partnership across the arts and community members. In this interview, they discuss how their practice is rooted in collaboration, community activation, and taking care of one another.
Meinzer: You’ve been busy with your show at Rebecca Camacho Presents and your piece at The Bentway.
María Fernanda Camarena: Yeah, Rebecca Camacho was great. We were very busy at the beginning of the year, but it’s a different type of busy—like the busy that you get to enjoy.
Gabriel Rosas Alemán: It was nice to work on both projects in parallel. We finished the Bentway Project show and the Rebecca Camacho show almost at the same time. So it was a very intense early 2025—it was also the first time we worked on two big projects at the same time. We had more time to prepare Rebecca Camacho, to develop the narrative we wanted to be present...
-Meinzer
