CARMEN is a Los Angeles–based studio founded by artist Carmen Molina.

Centered on an evolving archive of photographic compositions, the practice begins with encounters with the material world—light, atmosphere, mineral surfaces, water, vegetation, architecture, traces of time.

Through processes of fragmentation, layering, and recomposition, these encounters are transformed into abstract works.

Silk serves as the studio's primary substrate. Through sartorial form, photographic compositions can be carried, inhabited, and experienced in motion.

Moving through paper, silk, and space, the studio's work follows the transformation of photographic experience across materials and forms.