Cristina Colichón
Bio
A visual artist whose academic background was developed in the United States, earning a B.F.A. with a concentration in Fibers from the Massachusetts College of Art (1990) and completing painting studies at St. Michael’s College of Art in Vermont. Her career is distinguished by a profound investigation into Peruvian textile heritage, which she has projected into contemporary art through sophisticated material experimentation. She has consistently exhibited her work across major platforms in Peru and abroad, noted for her ability to integrate ancestral technical knowledge with installative and sculptural proposals. Her work has been fundamental in redefining textiles as an avant-garde language, positioning her as a key figure in the dialogue between manufacturing traditions and modern spatial poetics.
Statement
Based on the reinterpretation of Peruvian textile tradition, Colichón utilizes alternative materials such as metallic fibers, nylon threads, and transparencies to establish a dialectical dialogue between light and form. Her practice conceives weaving not merely as a technique, but as an architectural and sculptural concept that generates ethereal, geometric, and subtle structures. Through the superimposition of layers and the study of transparency, her work fuses ancestral technical knowledge with the symbolic languages of contemporaneity. The act of weaving thus becomes an extension of the artist and the central axis of a discourse that integrates sculptural principles and spatial projection.
