Fernando Nureña
Bio
Fernando Nureña Cruz (Callao, 1993) Studied at the Art School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Among his solo exhibitions are: Ningún lugar adonde ir. Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Cusco (2022), La casa y la fábrica. With Benjamín Cieza. ICPNA Centro (2022), Espectros, Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Cusco (2021), Mixtape (PaseoLab @ Galería del Paseo, 2020). Among his group exhibitions are: XXIV National Competition Passport for an artist, Alianza Francesa de Lima (2021), Mapas nocturnos para pensar América Latina, Vigil Gonzales Galería, Cusco (2021), Procesos (de) construcción nacional, Arco E-exhibitions (2021), Third Prize ICPNA Arte Contemporáneo (Espacio Juan Pardo Heeren, 2020), Colaboración Eficaz (Laboraleatorio, 2019), Noche de videos 2 (Sala Luis Miró Quesada, 2017), 35 Salón Nacional de Grabado (ICPNA, 2016), among others. He is part of the design team of Meier Ramirez Publicaciones Independientes.
Statement
His artistic practice is built from revisiting images of social and familiar circulation. She usually works reproducing media such as photographs, newspapers, posters, books, and others, which circulated in the city of Lima from the 1960s onwards, mostly linked to a working class experience.
He is interested in the crossings between personal-family histories and collective histories, being able to find in one's own experience the course of a shared history, and vice versa. The analysis of the material he works with and its reproduction leads him to question the current state of images and their capacity to produce meanings.
