Ariana Macedo
Bio
Born in Lima, 1976. Lives and works in Lima. She holds a degree in Art with a major in Painting from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has completed studies in education at the same university. She has also taken courses in arts integration and cultural project management at various centers.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Peru and abroad, such as “Maternidades paralelas” at Augusta Espacio - Cusco, curated by Brenda Ortiz Clarke, performing in the Sacred Valley Soy Tierra, Soy Raíz, screened at Pinta Miami and with which she participated in the Pangue Video Art Festival at the Latin American Pavilion - LA Art Show, Des-pro-tejidas curated by Inés Hernández at Galería Lastcrit, Barcelona, among others. Likewise, her solo exhibition, La mesa está servida, was presented at the Cultural Center of the University of San Agustín in Arequipa. She recently presented her fifth solo exhibition, Soy Tierra, Soy Raíz, curated by Giuliana Vidarte at MUCEN (2025) as part of the prize for the XIV BCRP National Painting Competition.
Winner of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture's Visual Arts Production Project Competition 2025 and first place in the XIV BCRP National Painting Competition 2023, she has been selected as a finalist for the ICPNA Contemporary Art Award 2025, 2024, 2021, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial 2024, Portugal, IPAE Business Award Sculpture Competition 2024, 2023, among others.
Her work is part of the collection of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Arte Al Límite Museum, among other local and international private collections.
Statement
Creating and mothering as resistance.
My work focuses on different aspects of women's daily lives, particularly the experience of motherhood and the home. Especially since the pandemic, I have focused on those of us who are responsible for caregiving and how we constantly face stereotypes of roles that impose on us to be “the good mother,” which is socially naturalized and, therefore, silenced.
In this vein, it has been very important for me to make a conscious decision to work with weaving, sewing, and embroidery as means of expression, since these tasks are part of the feminine traditions of my maternal family, activities that have often been considered of lesser value and importance, conceived as part of the domestic tasks assigned to women. These media, therefore, represent for me a way of reconnecting and reclaiming.
All this experience and knowledge of the place that weaving has had in the women of my maternal family has generated in me the need to investigate the origin of this tradition, focusing on the homeland of my ancestors (Huacrachuco, province of Marañón, Huánuco Region), seeking to conduct a kind of family archaeology to rediscover the ancestral dimension of weaving among women and find my legitimate identity as a weaver.
