Ana Cecilia Farah
Bio
Farah graduated in Fine Arts in Lima from Corriente Alterna School of Visual Arts in the year 2004. She graduated of Fine Arts Postgraduate Program in Goldsmiths University, London. She has had 6 solo shows in Lima in: Lucia de La Puente Gallery (2007), Luis Miró Quesada Garland Gallery – Municipality of Miraflores (2006 y 2016), Vértice Gallery (2008 y 2011) and at the Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum (2018). She also has taken part in collective exhibitions; in Madrid, as part of the VIP program of Arco 2019 and in London in June 2019, in the Fashion and Textile Museum. She was selected to participate of CONTEXTILE2020, a Contemporary Textile Art Biennial in Guimaraes Portugal.She has exhibited International Art Fairs as Zona MACO (México), ARCO (Madrid), Pulse (Miami), Ch.ACO (Santiago de Chile), Buenos Aires Photo (Buenos Aires), Fotofever (Paris) and ODEON (Bogotá), and in the local ones PARC, Art Lima and Lima Photo.
Statement
Ana Cecilia’s discourses go from the vanishing aesthetics and ways of living from the past, inherited from the Colonial and Republican times to the concern for the construction of a new urban morphology related to the economic, political and social changes mostly produced by migration and globalization in South America these last decades. In the discourses related to contemporary times, she focuses on the changes of the subject, of the city and in bringing to date ancestral elements as she does with Pre-Inca textiles where the references seem to appear mostly invisible. Ana Cecilia has worked with fabrics with prints about nature and geometrical forms with different objectives and meanings in different moments of her career . In her most recent works, “painting” is an appropriated fabric that she hardens losing the textile’s attribute, transforming into a tridimensional painting.
