The exhibition brings together a large number of books, specialised articles, documents, catalogues and exhibition brochures that show, on the one hand, the great interest and the different readings and interpretations that have been made of Ayacucho art by artists, intellectuals, researchers and collectors throughout the 20th century. On the other hand, they reveal how the artists themselves, from different and suggestive perspectives, have thought about and defined their own production.

The curator is Gabriela Germaná, a specialist in modern and contemporary Andean art with an emphasis on indigenous and rural aesthetics and their critical relationship to the global art context.

As part of the opening of the biobibliographical exhibition “Imaginaries in dispute: (popular) art from Ayacucho”, a conversation will be held with the participation of the curator herself, Venuca Evanán and Edilberto Jiménez.

Conversation

In the framework of the biobliographic exhibition “Imaginaries in dispute: (popular) art from Ayacucho”, on Friday 29 November, at 12:30 pm, there will be a conversation with the participation of Venuca Evanán, Gabriela Germaná and Edilberto Jiménez.

Venuca Evanán is a visual artist, illustrator and educator, daughter of the artists Primitivo Evanán and Valeriana Vivanco. Venuca stands out for her particular approach to the traditions and artistic expressions of the Sarhua community. Her work deals with aspects related to the vindication of the role of women and migration. Venuca is a well-known promoter of the illustration of Sarhua boards. She has conducted several workshops on this art form at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru and the Lugar de la Memoria-LUM. In 2020 she was awarded the Contemporary Art Prize of the Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute.

Gabriela Germaná studied Art History at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and received her PhD in Art History and Criticism from Florida State University. Gabriela specialised in modern and contemporary Andean art with an emphasis on indigenous and rural aesthetics and their critical relationship to the global art context. Her research addresses issues such as decolonial theories, visual sovereignty, feminist theories and gender studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, and theories of circulation and regimes of value. Gabriela was a visiting assistant professor at the University of South Florida. She has also worked as a researcher and curator in different museums in Lima and has developed several independent curatorial projects in Peru and the United States. Her research has been published in various national and international journals, as well as in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.

Edilberto Jiménez is the son of the master retablist Florentino Jimenez Toma and Amalia Quispe Sulcaraymi. He is a journalist and anthropologist graduated from the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, Ayacucho. Edilberto has an important production of ‘San Marcos’, which has won prizes in different exhibitions. He has exhibited his works in the USA, Italy, Germany, Spain, Japan, France, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico, and has given lectures in several of these countries. In 2002 and 2003 Edilberto was a member of the South-Central headquarters of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación-CVR). He is author and co-author of several publications. Free admission.