
One of Mexico City’s most renowned galleries is touching down in the Big Apple this week in celebration of the New York City’s design week.
Making The Shed its temporary home, OMR brings Mexico City-born artist Pia Camil to the New York edition of contemporary international art fair Frieze. The gallery’s booth features a select curation of work, including sculptures at the center, surrounded by Camil’s new series Into the Wild.
While Camil’s first brush at artistic development came through painting, her most recent work has centered on large-scale installations delving into sculpture and performance as well, rendering her a disciplinary artist. For the series on view, Camil returns to painting as her medium.

The new series of eight paintings features natural imagery of the Guembas, or plantain trees, a call to the artist’s home in the forest. Depicted as the naturally dense flora grown in clusters, the trees provide structure and companion in the artworks. Bodies also appear blending into its surroundings, unfolding into the space with rhythm.
“The series moves between observation and projection, allowing painting to register a more intimate negotiation between freedom, control, and the invisible conditions that shape both,” OMR said in a press statement.

Meant to explore the relationship between desire and the wilderness, the artworks focus not only on the bodies but on the nature on view. In addition to being a regenerative plant, the Guembas are also a mother tree in Syntropic Agriculture, a regenerative farming system which the artist delved into.
The eight bodies of work serve as a collaboration with the artist’s surroundings, as she depicts various stages of the day—”from dawn to dusk”—as a call to time’s cyclical nature.
Into the Wild is on view at Frieze New York from May 13 to May 17. OMR is located at Booth A6.






