Kylla Piqueras
Bio
Kylla Piqueras (Lima, 1979) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores the meeting points between contemporary art, ancestral wisdom, and ethnobotanical research. With a background that integrates design, visual arts, and the humanities, she has developed a unique visual language that uses textiles and movement as tools for connection and healing. Heir to the Neo-Peruvian vision of her great-grandfather, Manuel Piqueras Cotolí, Kylla evolves this legacy into a living syncretism where the sacred and the modern engage in a fluid dialogue. Her career includes the First Prize in the VI National Painting Contest of the BCRP (2014) and international exhibitions in venues such as ICPNA (Lima), the Museo de la Neomudéjar (Madrid), and the Fashion and Textile Museum (London). She currently lives and works in Mexico City, expanding her search through the cartographies of the spirit.
Statement
My artistic practice is based on the creation of "Mantos" (Cloaks): large-format pieces that operate as spiritual cartographies and testimonies of recovered knowledge. Through a technique that combines screen printing, traditional dyeing, embroidery, and beadwork, I seek to materialize the vibration of light and sacred geometry. My work is the result of over fifteen years of deep immersion in Andean and Amazonian traditions, where medicinal plants and textile patterns become vehicles for understanding the unity between the macro and microcosms. I understand art not only as an aesthetic object, but as a ritual experience and an offering that seeks to build bridges between the visible and the invisible.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
