This contemporary artwork features two curved wooden shapes that appear to be hooks or hangers. The surfaces are adorned with a vibrant collage-like design, incorporating various patterns, symbols, and miniature scenes depicting people, animals, and landscapes in a whimsical, folkloric style. The artwork showcases a playful and imaginative approach, blending intricate details with a cohesive visual composition. The artist likely intended to create a playful, decorative piece that invites the viewer to explore the richness of the illustrated imagery and the expressive use of color and texture. ...
Venuca Evanán continues and transforms the artistic heritage of the Sarhua community in southern Peru’s Ayacucho region. Using natural earth pigments and bird feathers, she has developed the traditional Sarhua Tables painting techniques over more than twenty years. She experiments beyond tradition by applying these methods to surfaces such as wood, stone, and textiles. Breaking barriers as one of the first women to engage in this male-dominated practice, Evanán’s work broadens its themes to explore intimate and critical social issues. Her art speaks to community customs, feminine identity, eroticism, gender violence, LGBTQ+ struggles, and the lived realities of migrant women. Through her practice, she honors and elevates the cultural legacy of Andean women while weaving contemporary feminist narratives into a centuries-old tradition. Her compositions often merge finely detailed figurative scenes with symbolic motifs and text, creating visual narratives that are at once personal and communal. Evanán’s process involves meticulous layering of color, texture, and iconography, allowing each piece to serve as both a record of memory and a statement of resistance. By integrating traditional imagery with contemporary issues, she ensures that Sarhua painting remains a living, evolving language—rooted in ancestral knowledge yet responsive to the urgencies of the present. ...
Instituto de Vision is a Bogotá and New York based gallery for conceptual practices. Their mission is to investigate conceptual discourses that have been neglected by the official Latin American art canon. They have recovered important estates from the Latin American art of the mid century and continue to research the most enigmatic oeuvres of the region. Through a parallel program, they represent some of the most relevant contemporary practices from Colombia, Chile, North America, Venezuela, and others. Directed by three women, Instituto de Vision gives special attention to female voices, queer theories, environmental activism, the conflicts of migration, and other critical positions that challenge the established order. Using the international art scene as a platform, they are committed to give visibility and expand the work of artists that reveal critical realities and raise important questions for these contemporary subjects. ...
