My practice as a visual artist is focused on creating symbolic bridges between individuals and / or communities; that have different cultures and geographic spaces. My work has transversal axes as: marginality, exclusion and invisibility. These are related to deep issues such as: migration, racism and particularly the historical memory associated with the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980 - 2000), which I have been developing for two years, creating a Memory Space with a specific community.
Formally, my work is in macro or micro scale; and for specific sites. My practice can be individual as well as collective. I believe in co-creation processes, as an individual, I am part of the collective artist group FIBRA and as part of the community, we made a Memory Space with the people of Hualla in Ayacucho, Peru; and with nature, a bio materials project.
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170 x 130 cm
2012
Piece done for the exhibition “La cantuta en nuestra Memoria, 20 años” (La Cantuta in our memory, 20 years). The work was born of the kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and one professor of "La Cantuta" in 1992 by the paramilitary group Colina.
It pretends to put aside the political relevance of this case and focus his eyes on the human and intimate side of each of the missing people, so we can cut the distance that creates a victim when becomes a political case. In a metaphorical way, life and death are contrasted, like epitaphs.
En la palma de nuestras manos
Desbosque: desenterrando señales
Memory space Chimpapampa
Since 200 years
At 713 kilometers from here
I hope that something changes
Everybody lost something in this trip
The Nobodies
walking to the Present
Imagine 69 280 crosses II
Peru Gourmet
¿Emergentes? Collective - Private Metre
Memory...
Threads Migration
Imagine 69 280 crosses I
Peripheral Project
Oda al jet
The bakery
Identificate.pe
Migration Maps