By: María Laura Hernández de Agüero
The exhibition “Loving the worm,” curated by Tarissa Revilla, invites us to immerse ourselves in a world of worms, containers, and matter in transformation; forms that evoke liminal states of the body.
Zoé Guillén's (1998) work lies at the intersection of art and clothing design, border practices that allow her to explore the tensions between structure, instinct, and desire.
Trained in Art, Fashion, and Textile Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the artist constructs an intimate cosmogony where the body appears as a territory of contradictory forces, using organic forms such as worms, embryos, and matter in transformation. In this way, she explores the idea of the body as a liminal zone.
Guillén loves fabrics and textures, and through touch, she has found a vehicle for expressing herself and proposing aesthetics and discourses. She understands no other way of engaging in dialogue than through the senses, through the freedom to choose how to interact with the piece. At the heart of her work beats an intimate cosmos where the body becomes the source of meaning.
"Loving the worm" is a journey into the interior of embodied experience, a space where creation and loss coexist in a single heartbeat. This shift arises from a bodily experience that made evident the coexistence of creation and loss within the same space: a process of mourning and an interrupted gestation occurring simultaneously. Through soft sculpture, drawing, and video, Zoe G. Serrano constructs a visual universe that invites us to embrace ambiguity as a form of knowledge.
“Loving the worm,"
La Rebelde Bookstore Gallery. Jr. Batalla Junín 260, Barranco.
The exhibition will run from April 1st to 29th.