Researcher Fine Art
01.01.04 – 31.12.05
In my practice, I have been developing the idea of ‘units of information’. Surfaces or modules of information that flow through different aspects of culture: history, architecture, vernacular paraphernalia, etc. Within this process, these surfaces become fields of contact or grounds in which several discourses are forced to migrate or move in acts of ever increasing replacements of displacements. In tracing such moves I pretend, first, to decentralize the conditions by which signs and symbols become fixed and static. And secondly, to reinforce the idea that through the reconfiguration or the interruption of values, meanings and processes, one can create imaginary solutions to comprehend our immediate landscape and historical background more clearly.
In my research, I have been focusing on several ways in which aspects of modernity and contemporary culture have been assimilated and understood in Peru. Both processes have been overshadowed by an increasing need to transform external information into concrete and ordinary actions and, at the same time, to reconsider our own historical background in the face of a constant call for adaptation. Hence, these actions not only function as strategies to replace and displace unfamiliar information for applicable, ‘real’ data, but also as alternatives ways of keeping all information in transit and in motion. By the same token, these transformations become a flexible and extendible platform of dialogue and exchange, both of which are not only vital premises within my art work, but permanent metaphors of subversion, mobility and change.
Lima, PE.
MA Painting. Royal College of Arts. London, GB.
Resident. La Cité des Arts. Paris, FR.
Black and White Photography, Instituto Gaudi.
BA Fine arts. Facultad de Arte Pontificia Universidad Católica. Lima, PE
Founder member of Espacio La Culpable (an artist run space and art collective).
Degree Show. London, GB: Royal College of Art.
El Paso. Porto Alegre, BR: Casa Cultura Mario Subasta; Lima, PE: Espacio La Culpable.
The Progressive Future. London, GB: Platform Gallery.
The Protective Clothing Company. London, GB: Knox Gallery.
To Be Political It Has To Look Nice. New York, US: Apex Art.
Diversion. London, GB: 291Gallery.
Interim Show. London, GB: Royal College of Art.
Quinto Concurso Patronato de la Telefónica. Lima, PE: Sala Fundacion Telefónica del Perú.
Sexto Concurso Pasaporte Para Un Artista. Lima, PE: Sala Centro Cultural Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Proyecto Terreno De Experiencia 1. Lima, PE: Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland.
El Último Lustro. Lima, PE: Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland.
Irrealidad. Lima, PE: Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma.
Viaje a la Luna. Lima, PE: Centro Cultural Español.
The Bakery. Amsterdam, NL.
Man Group Prize. Royal College of Art. London, GB.
Premio Adolfo Winternitz. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, PE.
Premio de la Critica. Banco de Credito. Lima, PE.