Ana Cecilia Farah
Bio
Lima 1971
Graduated from Alternating Current, student of the Fine Arts program at Goldsmiths University London. She participated in Exhibitions at the Lucía de La Puente Gallery, the Luis Miró Quesada Room, the Vértice Gallery and the Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum.
Collective exhibitions:
Split memory Archeology of postmodernity in ruins Ricardo Palma Cultural Center, Hidden Apparent Sappers within the parallel program VIP Arco 2019 and Weavers of the clouds: Textile Arts of Peru Fashion and Textile Museum. Medium black fungi and matter in the Luis Miró Quesada Room. Honorable Mention XIII National Painting Contest of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. 2020 selected to participate in Contextile Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art in Guimaraes. Finalist of the Passport for an artist contest.
International fairs MACO ARCO Zone Pulse Ch.ACO Buenos Aires Photo Fotofever ODEON PArC Lima and Lima Photo. Private collections: Peru Argentina Spain United States and Belgium.
Statement
I consider myself a great collector. Many times I start a work from the rescue of
a fabric, industrial materials or found objects, which I appropriate and then
I investigate to understand their nature, their origin and their uses in order to resignify them to
through various media such as photography, painting, collage, sculpture, video and
facility.
At the beginning of my career I was interested in the hybridity of the identity of the subject
Latin American contemporary thought from the complex miscegenation of him. starting from me
own identity, I focused on a discourse where the Europeanizing sign was manifested
in the cultural (furniture, objects, brocades, fabrics) and the Latin American in that of nature
local exuberant, almost idealized and excessive. Thus, through the manipulation of objects, I was
erasing the force of the European influence with the aim of disappearing the aesthetics and forms
of life from the past, heirs of the colonial and republican eras.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
