Camila Rocha

Camila Rocha

Camila Rocha (*1977) is based in São Paulo and Istanbul. She observes plant species, their colours, textures; and translates them into various media of art. She creates new plants and imagined variations of existing plants with drawings, videos, photography and large scale installations. Her past exhibitions include Florikultur sp. at the School of Botany in São Paulo, The Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo, Sefatoryum, a large-scale site- specific installation in the foyer of Istanbul Modern, part of the TILL IT”S GONE exhibition, curated by Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo. She held artistic residencies in Finland, Sweden, India, Australia, Türkiye and Brazil. In 2022, she went on an expedition to the Chilean Patagonia and in 2019 to the Rio Negro in the Amazon with biologists and with the botanical technical drawing team following in the footsteps of Margaret Mee. She has dedicated the last 8 years to studying Botany at the School of Botany. She previously showcased her one-person exhibition titled Quite Similar at Öktem Aykut; her large-scale installations were a part of the group exhibition Trunkless and the gallery’s fair presentations.

Quite Similar 

25.10.2018 – 01.01.2018