Anaïs Castro is a curator and author based in New York and Montreal. She holds a master's degree from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor's degree from Concordia University and has worked for institutions such as the National Gallery of Canada and Arsenal Contemporary Art. In 2023-2024, she collaborated with Gaëtane Verna as assistant curator on Kapwani Kiwanga's project at the Canadian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Her independent practice has led her to curate exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe, and China, and to co-found the collective The Department of Love. A member of the editorial team at Daily Lazy, she regularly publishes her writings in various specialized journals.

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The next edition of the Symposium will examine the multiple dimensions of camouflage: material, symbolic and affective. Some works may highlight the way in which bodies, identities and subjectivities are concealed, controlled or instrumentalized by means of visual manipulation—whether through surveillance systems, political rhetoric or filters that shape our interactions on social media. Others may employ mimicry, concealment or narrative instability to thwart the mechanisms by which information is produced and circulated. Through these approaches, camouflage will appear not only as a mode of escape, but also as a critical lever capable of revealing the invisible structures that make deception possible.

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