From distant lands it comes,
traveling across waters and air,
to meet the light once held in the lens
and receive its color, its memory,
its trace.
Carmen Molina is a Bogotá-born artist based in Los Angeles.
Trained in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she creates dense, painterly compositions constructed from an evolving archive of photographic source material gathered through travel across natural and urban landscapes.
A residency at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi marked a decisive shift in her work. Representation receded in favor of atmosphere, gesture, and material presence.
Her 2015 exhibition THIS IS at Galería Sextante in Bogotá presented her first abstract series, expanding the boundaries of photography by layering and manipulating strokes of light into emotional fields of color and texture.
These photographic compositions later extended into silk, where scale, movement, and proximity to the body introduced a new dimension of experience.
This expansion led to CARMEN, a studio producing limited-edition silk garments derived from her original works.
Across mediums, Molina traces her dialogue with light and surface into abstraction and form.
