Luz María Bedoya, Tania Bruguera & Celia Vázquez Yui

We are proud to announce that on April 22, 2025, we will inaugurate three parallel exhibitions in our space in Lima, featuring the projects of renowned artists Luz María Bedoya, Tania Bruguera, and Celia Vázquez Yui.

These three proposals explore the relationships between art, the environment, and society from unique perspectives. Although the artists come from different practices, communities, and viewpoints, their works dialogue with one another, offering an enriching and diverse experience.

Luz María Bedoya: Other Scores of Water
Between 2022 and 2024, as part of the World Weather Network (WWN) program, proyectoamil, and Museo de Arte de Lima—MALI presented Other Scores of Water, a project by artist Luz María Bedoya. This work explored various expressions of water and its connection to the landscape and cultural fabric of regions along Peru’s coast, the Andes, and the Amazon rainforest, presented as “weather reports” within the WWN.

In this exhibition, the artist exhibits a special edition of videos recorded at the Ulcumano reserve (Oxapampa) and the Quelccaya glacier, one of the largest tropical glaciers in the world, currently undergoing melting.

Other Scores of Water follows All the Lighthouses on the Peruvian Coast, a project commissioned by MALI and Fundación Telefónica Movistar throughout 2021.

Tania Bruguera​: Accelerated Freefall (AFF)
Thanks to funding from the Mellon Foundation, managed by the Just Futures program at the University of Pennsylvania, artist Tania Bruguera’s project Accelerated Freefall (AFF), curated by Joselyne Contreras Cerda, connects art with the financial market through the donation of an artwork linked to an economic investment.

The project aims to provoke reflection on the relationship between art and the financial system, ensuring the artwork’s presence in artistic spaces and sustainable support for local artistic production. Bruguera has shifted her performative practice from the individual body to the institution, using money as a link between issuers and recipients. Rather than allocating the funds to her work, she transferred them to proyectoamil, which will manage and invest them in the stock market, reinforcing the impact on artistic communities.

Celia Vázquez Yui: The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals
Celia Vázquez Yui is an artist, indigenous rights activist, and political representative of the Shipibo-Conibo people of Peru.

In this series of ceramics, the artist explores the connection between ancestral female figures and contemporary viewers. Her work rescues and reinterprets the spirituality and wisdom of indigenous women in Peru, presenting them as guiding and protective animals.

In The Council of the Mothers Spirits of the Animals, Vázquez employs mixed techniques that combine traditional and contemporary elements, creating an immersive visual experience. The figures represented in her works convey a powerful and mystical presence, establishing an intimate dialogue with those who observe them.

The installation includes a sound piece as an experiment in non-linguistic exchange, serving as a sensory interface between humans and non-humans. The healing invocations and chants originated from an ayahuasca ceremony in which there were no human patients. The five healers (Elisa Vargas Fernández, Walter Ramiro López López, Rogelia Valera Gonsález, Claudio Sinuiri Lomas, Francisco Vargas Fernández) from the Shipibo Ancestral Medicine Union, Asomashk, led the ceremony. They intended to travel to the world of water, to the world of forests, interacting with the sonic spirits of their inhabitants at night.

The Council of the Animal Mother Spirits is a collaboration with the Shipibo-Conibo Center and was first presented at Salon 94 in New York in 2022.

Opening hours: Tuesdays–Saturdays, 10am–7pm. Free admission.