Roberto Huarcaya

Roberto Huarcaya is one of the most distinguished and committed contemporary artists in Peru. Since his appearance on the visual arts scene, he stood out for the ambition of his projects, in which the photographic medium has often been linked to other creative means in combinations of great solvency. Huarcaya has always been interested in reality as a space for creation. His proposals have frequently powerfully revolved around the construction of individual and collective identity facing situations that range from the banal-everyday, going through the erotic as a turning point of freedom, to reaching the political plane. Exercising an anthropological point of view on the images he chooses to take, the artist combines his interest in nature with its forests, oceans and jungles, which are manifested in emblematic series such as “Amazogramas” (2014). Also the rural environment, customs, dances and children are addressed in “Danzas Andinas” (2018) and “Andegramas” (2017). His work aimed to pursue these projects with visual devices that transform their reading, questioning the photographic but without violating the support of the image itself, but rather allowing an open and critical experience towards its configuration. There are no territorial limits for the creative investigation of the artist because there are no limits in his commitment to penetrate intellectually and physically into each of those territories to achieve, through his own sensitive experimentation, translate it into images that recover from the history of photography, primal procedures, paradoxically innovative for today’s photography. Since 2014, the artist has turned his attention to photography without camera and is producing ‘photograms’, returning to the very origins of photography and using a primitive technique to capture primeval realities. Through these works of photosensitive material of monumental dimensions, with a mixture of intuition and resonance, Huarcaya allows us to re-tie the sensitivity, which is like a palimpsest of our personal history, to a hectic sensory dynamics, in the chamber of the consciousness.