Camila Frers (b. 1998) was born in Milan, where she lives and works.
Her practice unfolds at the intersection of movement, aesthetics, and philosophy, where research is not a preliminary step but the very fabric of creation. Engaging with psychoanalysis and history as guiding forces, she explores the body as a site of negotiation—between thought and instinct, structure and dissolution. Movement, for her, is a mode of inquiry, a pre-linguistic articulation of presence that resists containment. Writing, in turn, operates as both extension and disruption, an attempt to hold what is in flux.
Her trajectory has been shaped by distinct cultural and intellectual landscapes, each offering an expansion of thought and method.
In Buenos Aires, where politics and theatre converge, she engaged with performance as both rhetoric and resistance, a space where presence carries the weight of historical and social discourse. Berlin dismantled the notion of fixed form, revealing movement as a language beyond structure—an articulation shaped by negotiation rather than confinement, where the body does not simply occupy space but redefines it. In London, photography emerged not as a means of documentation but as an interruption—an incision in perception, where the visible is subjected to analysis and deconstruction, and each gesture, material, and concept is rigorously interrogated. Now in Milan, she continues to cultivate a practice that moves beyond fixed categories, weaving together disparate systems of meaning and embracing the tensions between fragmentation, transformation, and fluidity. Here, she deepens her exploration of the body as a site of inscription and erasure, investigating how movement and material produce meaning through absence as much as presence. Engaging with the liminality of gesture, language, and form, her work operates within the space of the in-between—where the visible dissolves into the intangible, where instability becomes a method, and where process takes precedence over resolution.
Her ongoing project, Vera, examines the fabrication of narratives—both physical and conceptual—interrogating how movement and spatial interventions shape perception. Through durational performance and interdisciplinary explorations, she constructs spaces that resist resolution, existing instead within a state of perpetual unfolding.
She speaks Italian, French, English, and Spanish.
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