Peruvian artists
REBECA ROMERO: AFTER THE SUN
For the past five years, Rebeca Romero’s practice has been devoted to creating speculative artefacts that combine Indigenous American technologies and iconography with new fabrication techniques. Her works construct a visual and narrative otherworldly site, future remnants of a revolutionary civilisation. This mythic culture adorned itself, played music, gathered food, and navigated the earth while practising a society centred on care and communication with plants and stars.
CLAUDIA MARTÍNEZ GARAY: GHOST KINGDOM
Claudia Martínez Garay’s striking installation practice, brilliant use of color, and varied configurations of scale and material reminds us of the importance of collective mythologies in reclaiming symbols of the past through alternative methods of storytelling practiced throughout South American communities to challenge hegemonic colonial narratives and propose alternative futures.
Fernando Bryce:the Decade Review
In Bryce’s review of the decade what is implicit is that world diplomacy was a game played expertly, and exclusively, in the Northern Hemisphere, while the South was dealt and tampered with, most frequently without any political etiquette. Thus one can surmise that the seeds of what we now know as de-colonial thinking were being sown simultaneously in the minds of individuals, all over the globe, living in precarious and unstable locations where a multiplicity of experiences and experiments in the form of nascent post-imperialistic democracies or, more often than not, dictatorial regimes.
Fernando Bryce at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Fernando Bryce’s series of large drawings «Freedom First» captures the intricate events of the Cold War, the emblematic leaders of the time and the struggle to claim the most disputed word and ideal, freedom. Based on the covers of various magazines founded or supported by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) from its foundation in 1950 in West Berlin until the end of the 1960s, Bryce’s iconic appropriation and re-inscription of historical materials creates a large-scale fragmented geopolitical tableau.