Magaly Sánchez
Bio
BIOGRAPHY:
Magaly Sánchez is a contemporary artist born in Peru, currently based in Mexico City, Mexico.
She studied Painting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima (1987–1992).
Three years after graduating, she began her professional artistic career in 1995 with her first solo exhibition, “Pinturas”, in Lima, Peru. To date, she has held 12 solo exhibitions.
Since then, she has continuously developed her artistic practice, participating in group exhibitions and personal projects, as well as institutional art projects and art fairs.
Her artistic proposals reveal a significant evolution, marked by the search for a personal visual language nourished by the universe of nature and its connection with geometric language.
Timeline
1987–1992 Early years and university training
1995 Beginning of her artistic career
2001–2004 Motherhood
2006–2019 POP period
2010–present Bathers series
2014–2018 Renaissance and references
2018–present Green period: flowers, plants, and geometry
Statement
My work is an invitation into a universe where the viewer explores the paradox of the unconscious and the external and internal realities that intertwine, revealing the richness and complexity of the human experience.
These dreamlike atmospheres unveil compositions in which geometry is not merely a visual device, but takes on a central role within a perceptual discourse that engages with fields such as existentialism, the legacy of Romanticism, and the resonances of philosophical idealism.
Through my works, I allow these ideas to travel freely, inviting viewers to undertake a psychoanalytic reading that unveils echoes of their own memories—memories that become a mirror in which, often unintentionally, we confront and explore our own inner world.
This intersection of disciplines—philosophy, art history, and psychoanalysis—situates my artistic practice within a universal pictorial context, where the artwork transforms into a signifying and symbolic territory. Here, multiple meanings resonate with our personal experiences and align with the Freudian view of art as a path toward the sublimation of our inner impulses and the exploration of the human psyche.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
