Carolina Charry Quintero makes films, video installations, and writes.

She is interested in exploring language as a malleable material, finding ways to write through play and improvisation. Her writings reveal an intense relationship with the self, a poetic and philosophical interest in the shifting between the intelligible and the unintelligible, and a search for the materiality of language.

Her book of poems dos, tres, un (2022) is also performed as a sound piece with a percussionist and pianist. Her most recent book, Mamut (Mammoth, 2024), plays with language, looking for hybrid possibilities btween poetry and narrative. She seeks to inhabit the space that opens when moving from the written word to the spoken and sung voice, and to other vocal forms. She explores performative reading and is interested in the relationship between writing and the writer’s body.

Her work reflects on utopian and dystopian ideas of nature, fragmented and cyclical concepts of time, the uncertainty of vision, and light and darkness as both experiences and metaphors. She is drawn to the human-animal border as a space for thought and as a site from which to reconsider fundamental definitions of the human, along with the ethical, political, and philosophical questions that arise at this boundary.

She has exhibited her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, the Retrospective of Latin American Experimental Cinema at Redcat, La Tertulia, Artbo, and in film festivals such as Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, and Fracto in Berlin, among others. She has contributed to Cerosetenta at Uniandes and Gaceta de El País. She has taught at Bellas Artes, Icesi, and Uniandes, completed a Master’s in Film and Video at CalArts (USA), and studied Philosophy and Visual Arts at Universidad del Valle in Cali.