My conceptual interests –understanding the present by looking into the past and recognizing the potential of images to resonate and prompt a universe of associations in the collective memory– guide my practice of transforming found material into collages, sculptures, and video installations. In my investigation I turn to scientific studies such as geology, archeology, and cartography to explore forms of fragmentation and material reinterpretation. My work seeks to redefine natural realms and their generative processes, presenting them as incomplete and ambiguous spaces where multiple times and topographies seem to unfold in unison.

Mi práctica es guiada por intereses críticos relacionados al entendimiento del presente a través de una mirada al pasado y a la capacidad evocativa de las imágenes para resonar y desencadenar un universo de asociaciones en la memoria colectiva; estos intereses transforman materiales encontrados en collages, esculturas y video instalaciones. En mi investigación recurro a temas como la geología, arqueología y cartografía para explorar formas de fragmentación y reinterpretación de material documentado y racionalizado por la ciencia que estudia la composición, evolución e historia de la Tierra. Mi obra busca reinterpretar estadíos naturales y sus procesos generativos presentándolos como espacios incompletos y ambiguos en donde se fusionan múltiples tiempos y topografías.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

• 2008-2010: MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London, United Kingdom.
• 2000-2005: BA Fine Arts, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru.

Prizes / Fellowships

• 2014: Americas Society’s Commission for David Rockefeller Atrium, Americas Society, New York, USA.
• 2006: Special Mention , 12th International Arts and Digital Cultures Festival of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
• 2006: Second Prize, 9th French-Peruvian Contest of Visual Arts “Pasaporte para un Artista”, Lima, Peru.
• 2004: Production Prize, 2nd Peruvian Contest of Video and Electronic Arts, Lima, Peru.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2013: “All The Pieces Back Together”, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
• 2013: “La Chambre“, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2012: “History Decomposes Into Images, Not Into Narratives”, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru.
• 2011: “Elena Damiani and Alois Godinat“, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2011: “The Second Treasury of Stanleth”, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
• 2011: “Vanishing Point Vantage Point”, Dohyang Lee Galerie, Paris, France.
• 2007: “Sites”, Galeria Vertice, Lima, Peru.
• 2005: “1st International Print Biennale – Prints and Motion “, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru.
• 2005: “Geo”, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru.
• 2003: “Moción animal”, Espacio La Culpable, Lima, Peru.

Group Exhibitions

• 2015: “THEOREM, You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself“, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA.
• 2015: “Vienna Biennale – Future Light: Escaping Transparency“, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.
• 2015: “All the World’s Futures“, 56 Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
• 2014: “Idea of Fracture – Opinione Latina P.2“, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
• 2014: “Spatial Acts: Americas Society Commissions Art“, Americas Society, New York, USA.
• 2014: “BIM Bienal de la Imagen y Movimiento“, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2013: “Project 35 Volume 2“, ICI Independent Curators International, touring exhibition.
• 2013: “Videoarte 01- Reopening the blackbox of technology“, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru.
• 2013: “9th Bienal do Mercosul“, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• 2013: “Ciclorama“, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.

Collections

• Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA.
• Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas / New York, Venezuela / USA.

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About the Artist

¨Where are we when we are in the world?¨

This question has led me to explore the notions of space and place.

My constructions and environments are mostly made out of various found objects, images and materials, some of them belonging to a domestic, industrial or construction milieu. The site, its space and architectural components are key in shaping the works. I use straight lines and the continuous expanse they occupy and define. Thus, my works approximate provisional drawings in space and about space, aiming at a perceptual, pre-reflexive experience.

The process begins with the creation of three-dimensional structures which in turn, give place to drawings on paper that allow me to complete the concept.

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Construyo estructuras y ambientes condicionados por el sitio en cuestión, que se relacionan íntimamente con los elementos arquitectónicos vecinos. Se trata de corporeizar el espacio, volviéndolo parte esencial de la obra. Utilizo materiales y objetos encontrados pertenecientes a lo cotidiano, a la construcción y al desecho. Más que esculturas o instalaciones, se trata de dibujos provisionales en el espacio tendientes a desaparecer. Me interesa la experiencia perceptual, pre-reflexiva, que coloca al espectador en un instante de conciencia de sí mismo.

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