"Las Dos Montañas" by Sandra Gamarra Heshiki features two panels of lush landscapes with mountains and palm trees, layered with a striking, jagged gold leaf across the lower half. The vivid blues and greens contrast with the bright metallic, creating a dichotomy between natural beauty and human intervention. The style combines realism with abstract elements, using collage-like techniques to suggest fragmentation. Gamarra Heshiki explores themes of colonial disruption and cultural legacy, challenging traditional narratives by blending historical landscape views with modern interpretations. ...
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. ...
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. ...
