Ximena Garrido-Lecca examines the turbulent history of Peru, and specifically
how neocolonial standards are transmitted through the processes of globalization. The artist approaches her works by scrutinizing urban, rural, and vernacular architecture, concentrating on spaces where a mediatory materiality is visible between the specific and the universal. Equally important is the memory of artisanal tradition and the abandonment of rural spaces as an aftereffect of the processes of modernization. Her work insinuates a permanent tension between the inheritance of vernacular culture and the new demands of industrialization, signaling the violence contained in an accelerated transnational economic model in increasingly open confrontation with the protection of the environment, sovereignty, and respect for different community lifestyles.
Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s next solo exhibition will be presented at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel in 2023. Her most recent exhibitions were held at Portikus, Frankfurt and the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, and Galerie Gisela Capitain, all 2022. In 2021, the artist took part in group presentations at Museo Madre, Naples; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. Further solo and group exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Bonn (2020); Proyecto AMIL, Lima (2019); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2019); Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana (2019); Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2017); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2015); among others.
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