Sandra Gamarra Heshiki critically unpacks the complex structures of museums, colonial histories, and systems of representation through her multidisciplinary practice, which includes painting, installation, and critical museography. Her work interrogates the ways art is displayed, consumed, and canonized, often inserting fictional or self-referential elements that disrupt and question institutional authority and traditional narratives. By recontextualizing images, artifacts, and archival materials, Gamarra Heshiki exposes the erasures and exclusions embedded within dominant historical accounts. She reveals how museums and cultural institutions have historically shaped collective memory by privileging certain perspectives while marginalizing others. Her practice serves as a critical reflection on identity, migration, and the enduring legacies of colonialism, particularly in Latin America. Through her layered visual language, Gamarra Heshiki confronts the cultural and political residues that persist within visual culture, exploring how histories of displacement and cultural hybridity inform contemporary identities. Her work challenges viewers to reconsider the authority of official histories and to recognize the multiplicity of voices often silenced in dominant discourses. Exhibited internationally, her art offers a powerful commentary on the ways memory, power, and representation intertwine in postcolonial contexts. ...
