CENTRO CULTURAL BELLAS ARTES

Group Exhibition: Iwati Parana / Sobre el río

At: Centro Cultural de Bellas Artes [Lima, Perú]

Curatorial text

What led us to establish a contemporary art residency in the Amazon?

Correlación contemporánea is a self management space that has the premise of exchange of experiences between students, young people and professionals dedicated to art production, providing a platform for dialogue and conversation to stimulate new ideas and possibilities in the context. In addition, Correlación contemporánea seeks to promote cultural exchange between artists and artisans in order to generate intercultural projects. As part of this discourse, different contexts were evaluated to select one and establish a residency program that proposed production, research and, above all, live in a community influenced by its geography and ancestral customs.

Iwati Parana | On the river 2017, emphasizes the social and cultural structure of the Kukama Kukamiria village, built on the Mapacocha banks in Nanay river, an floating zone. The residency area proposed to artists to produce and dialogue with the community structure in Santo Tomas. All these dynamics took place within a contemporary art residence that led residents and coordinators to confront the river variants that make up the Loreto region.Every residency experience must transform the concepts we have of our work as contemporary art workers, as a self management cultural space we should ask ourselves:

What effects did the Iwati Parana | Sobre el rio residency in the
coordinators, artists and the community of Santo Tomas?

Artists:

Angela Cortez [PE]
Christi Zorrilla Soto [PE]
Christina Peake [UK]
Nika Belianina [CA]
Julian Cording [MX/GE]
Marco Herrera [PE]
María Teresa Palacios [MX]
Marta Rosell Chust [ES]
Roc Domingo Puig [ES]
Romina Estecher [AR]
Sandra Flores [PE]

Work team:

Christi Zorrilla Soto [PE]
Marco Herrera [PE]
Sandra Flores [PE]

Works of Participating Artists

Romina Estecher (Argentina) – Acción de camuflar

She was born in Buenos Aires - Argentina (1983), where she lives and works. Her academic training had a brief passage through the Bachelor of Arts, which she decides to abandon. Since then, through open calls, she has been selected to participate in different workshops, art clinics, residency programs and exhibitions within Argentina and abroad (Germany, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru).

Maria Teresa Palacios (Mexico) – Pinturas

Maria Teresa studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts of "San Carlos", UNAM, for seven years, participating in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and Europe. In addition to being a painter, she has stood out for her work as Director of Art Projects, taking the Work of various Artists inside and outside the City, helping and promoting Culture..

Christina Peake (UK)

Christina studied Fine Arts at the University of Brighton and graduated from Goldsmiths College with a Masters in Post Colonial Studies. Her fascination for cultures has been nurtured by her parents who travel frequently to the Caribbean and the South of England, consolidating her interest in other cultures, art and nature since she was a child.

Julian Cording (Germany/Mexico)

Graduated from the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. The literary and mythological references in Cording's work encode color and give rise to unexpected relationships due to the interaction of the chosen materials and the development of established poetics in accumulation, transparency and density.

Sandra Flores - Conversaciones, Iquitos-Lima (Peru)

Student of the art education program at the Fine Arts School of Peru. Sandra considers herself an art-educator, who creates various mechanisms and dynamics that can be inserted in different human groups in order to map the different contexts that she visits, to generate work through data confrontation.