Ivet Salazar
Bio
Born in Lima, 1989. Lives and works in Lima. She graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and completed her studies at the École des Beaux Arts du Mans in France; she also took courses in illustration, education, ceramics and weaving in various centers. Currently she is studying a Masters' degree on Visual Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her artistic work focuses on the field of ceramic textiles, contemplating the themes of identity and culture.
She has had solo exhibitions including “Toda la vida en una gota” (All life in a drop) curated by Miguel A. López at the Julio C. Tello Museum in Paracas, Ica - Peru (2023). “Ceramic Textiles: for the fragility of our memory” at the Qorikancha Museum in Cusco, Peru (2018). As well as the performances "Maternidades Indelebles" at Piuray Lagoon in the Sacred Valley in Cusco, “Todas las leches” at the Huallamarca Site Museum in San Isidro, Lima (2024) and “Ella, Nosotras” at the Pucllana Site Museum in Miraflores, Lima - Peru (2023).
Nominated for the CIFO 2024 award. Selected in the IPAE sculpture competition exhibited at the British Cultural Center two consecutive years; as well as finalist in the ICPNA Contemporary Art Award competition organized by the Peruvian North American Cultural Institute in two consecutive years. Participating in the auctions of MAC Lima 2021 and 2022. Belongs to local collections such as MAC Lima, Museo San Marcos, Carlos Marsano and other international collections such as Museo Arte al Límite (Chile), among others.
She has participated in several group exhibitions inside and outside Peru, the most recent being “Maternidades Paralelas” at Augusta Espacio, Cusco; “Memoria hecha Ofrenda” at the Lugar de la Memoria, Tolerancia e Inclusión Social (LUM) in Lima; “Des/pro/tejidas” at Lastcrit Gallery, Barcelona and CC Español in Lima (2023); Salón de Arte Joven Nikkei, Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo - Japan; “Hilos de la [a]tradición”, Museo de San Marcos, Lima - Peru, among others.
Statement
Among many other things, I am an artist/artisan. My development as such is based on the development of my sensitivity.
I seek to turn every experience I have into reflection and translate it into matter, image, object.
Positioning my voice from the global south, I seek to contribute to the efforts to propose contemporary art from our traditions and knowledge.
In recent years, my relationship with my works has been forged by affection. Today, the works are for me subjects that carry ideas, subjects that I create together with the materials and techniques, so that they can live their own lives once they are born.
Ceramics and textiles have become central to my work. As materials with which I can converse and create pieces, they have become agents with wills that I allow myself to listen to and with whom, in every tension, weave, knot, or crack, we learn and gestate something new.
Similarly, performance and video have become the means to share these processes of making, existing, activating, and sharing.
In this way, themes such as motherhood, care, collectivity, and the resistance of historically relegated knowledge are the focus of my artistic practice, as well as my life in general.
