Contemporary artist based in Berlin. She decided to relocate to Berlin in 2016 where she has since established a thriving art practice. Working from her studio, Amaya takes part in both national and international projects and exhibitions.

Carolina Amaya's work explores the idea of transformation in the mental programming of the belief system that governs society. By addressing issues such as duality (positive and negative energy patterns applied to this 3d dimension), she manages to break free from these rigid structures, creating new interpretations of her work and allowing for complete freedom of expression. She calls this process "Ancestral Skins" which involves creating organized, ordered, schematic, sequential, and repetitive organic patterns and layering them with thick, gestural, and abstract marks of charcoal that seem to destroy the original image but instead, she´s reorganizing and transforming them into new impulses and ways of expression.

How she uses her body while applying the charcoal is crucial. It's a moment of pure presence, where intense, gentle, rapid, or energetic moments are created through the interaction between the paper, the charcoal, and her physical movements. It is the same mechanism of reconstruction that she applies in her sculptures, murals, and paintings.

Under this phrase, Amaya defines the action of leaving behind old programming (colonizing fantasies, or globalizing realities) fear, shame of the body, and control of the mind;

“I don't destroy my work, I transform myself.”

As a Latin American woman, she carefully introduces reflections on the traces of colonialism and old patterns. She explores the painful bond with her ancestors, the influence of DNA, information, old narratives, and beliefs. She confronts these themes through the lens of pleasure, self-love, fears, sensuality, eroticism, and kinky objects. Drawing from her experience of living in Berlin, she juxtaposes these concepts with Latin American organic and handmade materials such as Bijao tree leaves, handmade textiles, coconut fibers, human hair, coffee bags, jute, and natural wool from her native country, Colombia. Her work aims to provoke introspection and inspire emotions through a variety of media, including large-scale installations, hairy objects, monochrome colors and black, large-scale drawings, sculptures, paintings, objects with light, and photography featuring her own body as the main subject. Filled with rich symbolism, Amaya's unique artistic voice inspires viewers to engage with their inner selves and explore the depths of their sensuality and desires.