Denise Jiras
Bio
Jiras graduated in 2006 as a plastic artist at the School of Fine Arts Corriente Alterna. She enrolled on arts specialization courses on applied Plastic Techniques at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as Analogue Photography courses at Centro de la Imagen. Jiras obtained her Fine Arts degree from the National University of San Marcos, where she has also concluded the Cultural Studies Master’s Program.
Her work has been exposed in various exhibitions, galleries, cultural centres and international art fairs, including Pinta Miami and Limaphoto; Centro Cultural Peruano Britanico, San Isidro Town Hall, ICPNA, Peruvian National Library, Universidad del Pacífico, Urgel Gallery Madrid, Chavín National Museum, Pachacamac Museum. She has 5 individual artshows and her work is part of numerous collective and private exhibitions, including the permanent mural of the Chavín de Huantar National Museum. In 2022 she began her curatorial work with feminist sight.
Statement
Denise Jiras work is characterized by presenting unconventional materials that allow the artist to expand the idea of the city and national reality. It takes as inspiration the architecture of ancient, colonial and modern Peru where it combines new forms with the desire to be a terrestrial witness of its environment.
She is an artist who brings together dissimilar elements to explore their hidden relationships. It creates non-existent structures that make the links between the Andean tradition and globalization appear, which underlie the common unconscious.
She is dedicated to the invention of images and compositions that realize latent possibilities between the margins and the center, the shapes and the sumptuousness of color.
