ACTAS | Acts in feminine, 2023
Performing my own declaration of Independence through a symbolic act of appearing and
engraving myself within the official history of the Peruvian independence.
To rant the silence, the invisible.
Engraving on drywall
260 cm x 670 cm
RE-Construir Refugios Exhibition, 2023
Collective exhibition
XXVI National Competition of Visual Arts organized by Alliance Française of Lima and French Embassy
Cultural Center Pontifical Catholic University of Peru PUCP
Curated by Laurent Le Bourhis and Ron Reyes
Manicure, 2023
Un gesto sutil, un pequeño acto de manicurear hasta desaparecer las manos que simbolizaban el poder, el sometimiento y la opresión de un sistema patriarcal impuesto. Acto hecho sobre un grabado histórico hecho en la colonia como propaganda para someter y manipular.
Usó el esmalte de uñas (parte de un oficio asociado a lo que entendemos como femenino).
Nail polish on vinyl
260 cm x 365 cm
A subtle gesture, a small act of manicured hands, symbolizing the power, submission, and oppression of an imposed patriarchal system, to the point of disappearing. This act was based on a historical engraving made in the colony as propaganda to subjugate and manipulate.
I use nail polish (part of a trade associated with what we understand as feminine).
Image
Succession of the Incas to the Kings of Peru, 1748 (Virreinato of Peru)
Intaglio (line engraving) de Juan Bernabé
Scratch and win Estela, 2023
In “Scratch and win Estela” I use an image representative of Era del caucho (Amazon rubber cycle), a post-independence
period of Peru’s socio-economic history. This image was used as propaganda to conceal the colonization and slaughter of Amazonian ethnic groups.
I use screen-print as a resource to erase/scrape a historical era of genocide to make Estela Casanto, an Ashaninka indigenous leader, appear as a protagonist of our contemporary history.
On the top: Screen-print of the photography by French photographer E. Robuchon surrounded by Huitotos Indians,
taken in 1914 for the propaganda commissioned by Casa Arana, an extractive rubber company.
Interior photo: Identity card of Estela Casantos (the only public photographic record of her existence. She died in 2021 defending her territory).
performance that involves participation of the audience.
Screen-print and photography
gouche, inks on wood
67 cm x 100 cm
