Pierina Másquez
Bio
Pierina Másquez (b. 1993, Chiclayo, Peru; lives and works in Lima) is a visual artist whose work explores affective and spatial memory through objects and materialities. She has presented solo exhibitions such as Sindicato de mujeres invisibles (ICPNA San Miguel, Lima, 2025) and Hay algo que necesita ocultarse para que otros puedan existir (Crisis Galería, Lima, 2023). Her work has also been included in recent group exhibitions such as Concurso Nacional Pasaporte para un Artista (CCPUCP, Lima, 2023) and BOCABOCA (Food Culture Days, Switzerland, 2022).
Statement
Másquez’s practice begins from the autobiographical as a way of thinking about the collective. Her work draws on working-class memory, domestic labor, and internal migration, from which she explores how the body, desire, and affect can become forces of organization and resistance.
Through expanded painting, textile sculpture, ceramics, and drawing, she creates scenarios in which the intimate becomes political. Her works function as backdrops, rituals, and choreographies that rehearse forms of affective unionism—spaces where care, rest, and imagination are understood as rights and as strategies for living in common.
Her practice brings together situated feminism and poetic speculation to imagine invisible unions emerging from systemic and affective precarity. From the Global South, she proposes futures that exceed imposed models of gender, motherhood, and productivity, affirming imagination as a form of resistance.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
