Curated by Giuliana Vidarte
"Awakening the Sleeping Dust of Their Ancestors" brought together proposals from contemporary Peruvian artists that highlight the close connection that exists, and has existed, between the territory — its resources and cycles — and artistic practices. This collection of works proposes rethinking historical discourses, recovering traditional knowledge, making visible the artistic practices of different communities, and recognizing the space each creator belongs to, their particularities, and the fundamental link with the context. Additionally, in the development of these works, connections were established between creators who identify as traditional artists, craftsmen, visual artists, contemporary plastic artists, designers, among others.
These projects open up spaces for dialogue and bring viewers closer to the artistic creation processes of the ecosystems they inhabit and transform in contemporary Peru. These proposals retrieve modes of creation from the past and intervene in them, emphasizing their cycles of transformation. The projects emerge from collective efforts and due to the way they fluidly establish dialogues, they expand the boundaries of certain categories and definitions from which artistic work is currently understood. By delving into the details of the process, which is part of each proposal, the challenges of collective work and the tension between preserving traditional artistic knowledge and deepening experimentation and the generation of new ways of creating become evident.
The Special Project was located in the entrance hall of Casa Prado.
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Antonio Paucar, Mamá Rayguana (2023). Instalación parte de la exposición Hacer toser mi alma. Ginsberg Galería
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Antonio Paucar, Mamá Rayguana (2023). Instalación parte de la exposición Hacer toser mi alma. Ginsberg Galería
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Ivet Salazar, Registro de la performance Ella, nosotras-Museo de Sitio Pucllana-(2023)
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Ivet Salazar, Registro de la performance Ella, nosotras-Museo de Sitio Pucllana-(2023)
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Ana Teresa Barboza, Enlaces (2022). Ramas y tejido de junco. 200 x 120 cm
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Ana Teresa Barboza, Seguir en equilibrio (2022). Cerámica, ramas de algarrobo, hoja de palma tejida, piedra pómez y anillado de algodón nativo. 150 x 120 cm
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Josué Sánchez, Árbol de la vida II (2014) Acrílico sobre lienzo, 296 x 156 cm
Giuliana Vidarte (Lima, 1981)
Curator, art historian and teacher. She has developed research and exhibition projects on the relationship between visual arts and literature, the rewriting of history from the recovery of unofficial discourses and the history of the arts and contemporary creation from the Peruvian Amazon. She works as a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and develops projects as an independent curator and researcher. Between 2015 and 2018, she was curator of the research, management and promotion project of Amazonian art Bufeo. Amazonía+Arte. In 2019, she was curatorial assistant of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Between 2018 and 2023, she was Head of Curatorial and Collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima.