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About

Studio

Based in London, UK
and Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

studio@keila.ch
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Keila draws on her Swiss and Mexican heritage, having grown up within both cultures.
Combined with the struggles of her fast-paced generation, her work follows a conceptual line of work inspired by her personal narratives that explore human experience under capitalist structures of connection and consumerism.

Over the span of her studies at Goldsmiths, Keila developed a practice reminiscent of the apprentice. While incorporating this technique into a more self-sufficient one, she learned from old masters by studying their color pallets, symbolic treatments, and material preferences, weaving the canonical art history with the present under the guidance of Div. tutors, artists, and mentors.

Currently living and working in London, UK.

Education

BA of Fine Arts and History of Arts, 2024, Goldsmiths, University of London

Studio Practice: Fine Art Painting, Ceramic Sculpture, Collage, Digital Photography

Visual Cultures: Studies in Dialectics, Forensic Architecture, Surveillance, Popular Modernism, Ornamentation, Modernities and Utopias

Visual Merchandising, Level 3 Diploma (Polydesign 3D EFZ) 2018, Schule für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

06/2024
“Goldsmiths BA Degree Show”, New Cross, London, UK

10/2023
“QaVah” Collective, Mile End, London, UK

10/2018
“Kollektion 26”, Hallen am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Arists Reading List

Philosophy
Roland Barthes - Camera Obscura
Mark Fischer - Capitalist Reality
Walter Benjamin - Das Passagen Werk / Kapitalismus als Religion

Classics
Arthur Schnitzler - Fräulein Else / Reigen
Franz Kafka - Amerika / Das Schloss
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot