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.