Marina García Burgos
Bio
Marina García Burgos (Lima, Peru, 1968) studied television in Madrid, Spain; film in Siena, Italy; and photography at the Kodak Center in Lima, the International Center of Photography in New York, USA; and Central Saint Martins School of Art in London, UK. She has worked primarily in artistic and documentary photography, having dedicated more than 15 years to fashion and advertising photography.
She has developed several lines of artistic work, creating images on diverse supports such as acrylic, aluminum, wood, books, thread (embroidery), discarded materials, natural fibers, etc., seeking to add three-dimensionality and provide her work with more narrative tools.
Her pieces are in private collections in Spain, the UK, the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as in the permanent contemporary art exhibition at the Casona of the National University of San Marcos (Peru), the Latin American Photo Library (FOLA) in Argentina, Deutsche Bank in Germany, and the Luciano Benetton Collection in Italy. She has also been involved in human rights work. In 2009, she developed the photography and collective weaving project "The Shawl of Hope" in Lima and Ayacucho, currently on display at the Museum of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (LUM) in Lima, Peru.
She recently exhibited a series of photographs and pieces inspired by Peruvian geography and traditional objects from Amazonian indigenous communities.
Statement
Marina García Burgos
The artist expands our conceptions of reality, engaging the senses with textures, volumes, colors, and organic and inorganic materials that recreate, play with, and distort the conventions of two-dimensional photography. She also questions the relationship between culture and nature, which, far from constituting a complementary and reproductive unity, strips nature of its soul, reducing it to a mere object.
