Andres Pereira Paz

Andres Pereira Paz works across a variety of mediums – installation, sculpture, collage – but predominantly uses textiles, both small and large-scale. The artist’s practice explores human migration on local, regional and global levels, and its impact on the development of culture. His work is rich in its references to Andrean art history, references which are acutely and sometimes humorously blended with contemporary symbolism, revealing colonial legacies in a postcolonial condition. The artist’s eloquent installations are research-based, contextualised by a variety of subjects, including reproductive labour in times of the pandemic and late capitalism (Isabel, 2021); the environmental crisis of the Amazon rainforest (EGO FVLCIO COLLVMNAS EIVS [I FORTIFY YOUR COLUMNS], 2020); the influence of the Catholic Church in the 17th Century, colonised Bolivia (Radio Carabuco, 2019; the ways in which the Other is represented across cultures (B.E.M. (THE BOX ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM), 2017). Paz’s practice is incredibly intricate in its concepts and woven fabric of meaning. ...

80M2 Livia Benavides is an art gallery specialised in Peruvian conceptual art. The gallery opened in Lima as a response to a scarce infrastructure for the arts. From then on, the gallery is focused on developing critical discourses on contemporary issues. We are interested in different voices, practices and aesthetics focused on political and social reflection. By promoting the works of established and emerging artists who have influenced the local artistic scene, we intend to introduce new names internationally. The gallery strives to build bridges between the local and international contributing to an interchange that goes beyond borders. 80m2 Livia Benavides advocates for non- conventional exhibitions spaces that transcends the white box experience. With the intend to reach a broader spectrum of the community and to rethink exhibition venues. ...