Verónica Cerna
Bio
Verónica Cerna Orbegoso is a Peruvian visual artist born in 1991. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Lima, is a photographer graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York, has a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville and is a PhD candidate in Art and Heritage. Her work explores the representation of the body as a vehicle to question colonial power dynamics that permeate image, identity, gender and human rights.
Her work has been recognized in the International Photography Awards and The Photo Phore. She has been part of the Emerging Art publication of the German Embassy and BlocArt, and has been published in magazines such as Musée Magazine, Shots Magazine, Better Photography and Pecado Magazine.
She has exhibited at international art fairs such as Ch.Aco, SWAB, the Montevideo Biennial and Art Lima, and participated in collective exhibitions in Paris, Milan, New York, Buenos Aires, Seville, India and Peru. Her works are part of private collections in Russia, Mexico and the United States.
Statement
Verónica’s work is distinguished by its use of the body as a vehicle to question power dynamics that have historically subjugated both people and territories. In her work, corporality is seen as a territory in itself, one that has been mapped, exploited and controlled, reflecting the violence exercised on colonized lands and on women.
One of the central axes of her work is the critique of the extractivist dynamics that have marked the history of Latin America, both with regard to natural resources and female bodies. Verónica explores how these dynamics continue to manifest themselves in contemporary times, in a context where the exploitation of the female body and territory remain instruments of power. In her work, fertility and land are intertwined, claiming an autonomy that rejects their reduction to mere sources of extraction or production.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
