Carlos Alfonso

His practice focuses on processes and interventions where painting, cooking, writing, sculpture, and editorial resources open possible links for dialogue with a territory and echo collective construction. Co-creation, collaboration, and hospitality are notions incorporated into his work as living means of connection and reciprocity with the world. His interest in the anthropology of food has been a path to generating spaces for encounter, affection, and action, as forms of association between the anecdotal, oral tradition, and narrative interpretation, with the intent to foster knowledge exchange. Education: Master's degree in arts from LUCA School of Arts (2015, Brussels, BE), Bachelor's degree in industrial design from Universidad de los Andes (2010, Bogotá, CO). Residencies: Flora ars+natura (2019, Bogotá, CO), Agora (2013, Berlin, DE), and Bijlmair, Stichting Flat (2013, Amsterdam, NL). Selection of individual and group exhibitions: Altares del suelo se animan con fuego, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá, CO. 2023-2024. Sembrar la duda, indicios sobre las representaciones indígenas en Colombia, MAMU, Bogotá, CO. 2023-2024. Ecotono: chagras, payaos, camellones, in collaboration with Juliana Steiner, Odeón Space and Organizmo, supported by CHRA, New York, US. 2023-2024. El fruto es un punto en la trama, Santafe Gallery, Bogotá, CO. 2022. piedrapiedrapiedra, art and cooking gathering, Plural Nodo Cultural, Bogotá, CO. 2022 and 2020. Boca de estómago, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá, CO. 2021. Of encounters and other collective stories, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, FR. 2019. Among others. He is co-author of the book Mundos mutuos, la cocina como taller, 2020. He has collaborated with entre_ríos on the Bogotá River project and the publication Como cuidar un río, alongside Cristina Consuegra and Piedra Tijera Papel, 2023. Recently, his work has been published in the book Arte à mesa, diálogos entre arte y comida en América Latina, Act. Editora, São Paulo, BR. 2023, Tuber, or Not Tuber? Apartamento Cookbook #8, Barcelona, ES. 2023, and Obra 03, on paper, CDMX, 2024.