Group Mariage Initiative
Research project documentation, 2009-2013
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil”
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics.
Artist's Bio:
Born in 1979 in Bogota, Columbia. Was fellow-researcher at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2008/2009. His solo exhibition Entkustung de l’art (2010) presented at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain was part of a collaboration with the Luxembourg Military School, local politicians from the Senate, the Minister of Culture, and a hip hop band. His projects often leave the art world to become significant in another fields and can be viewed as a form of political activism or social discourse. His practice evolves around the possibility of art to bear practical effects on the cultural background and reflects on re-defining common concepts that can lead art to change the way in which we conceive society.
With Group Marriage Initiative, an on-going project as part of the Amsterdam Spinoza Manifestation (2009), Camacho petitions the Dutch parliament to open civil marriage to groups of citizens who would marry each other. Francisco Camacho seeks ways in which his work can exist within official social channels. His projects have been the result of long investigations and collaborations with the local context, inhabitants and lawyers to allow his discourse to be examined by other structures of society.