The days and the hours

exposicion individual - 2019

Los dias y las horas (The days and the hours)

curated by Carlos García-Montero
Drawing from Los días y las horas, a short story by Peruvian psychiatrist and writer Pilar Dughi that follows the everyday life of a subversive militant in the 1990s, this exhibition explored the temporal processes of eros and thanatos through the aesthetic transformations and interventions I shared with friends throughout 2018 and 2019. The body of work emerged from lived experiences and from a research process focused on the intersections of art and desire—often entangled with precariousness, vitality, and fury that I share with friends I admire, love, drift away from, and eventually return to.

In Dughi’s narrative, domestic labor appears as an affective practice deeply attuned to the cyclical tensions between life and death. Taking this as a point of departure, I sought to integrate feminized forms of care, gestures of affection, and expressions of desire into a visual language shaped by processes of change, transition, and self-fashioning. The works also draw on the cultural transformations of bodies like my own and on aesthetic modifications inspired, in part, by ancestral and “primitive” visual traditions from this and other geographies.

Ultimately, Los días y las horas reflects on how time—mutable and transitory—allows for deconstruction and reconstruction, for naming our fears and anxieties, for becoming and unbecoming. So much change produces “abominations,” as Dughi writes—monstrous forms capable of repopulating everything. These pieces are rooted in that possibility: aesthetic reorganizations oriented toward symbolic repair.

The photographic documentation was done by Luz Sarmiento Tello.

“Monstruo”
Ambientación con cojines de lentejuelas, peluche y tela reflectante
320 cm x 120 cms
2019

“Esperanos para comer” Videoensayo trabajado a partir de fragmentos del cuento “Los dias y las horas”. La edición del video fue realizada por @fitosudaka y la periodista y activista feminista Milagros Olivera me ayudó con la selección de textos.

El video está disponible aquí.
4:31 minutos
2019

“Uñas en fiesta”
Acrilico, lapices de color y aplicaciones de uñas y plumas.
100cm x 70cm
2019

“Mi amiga la culebra (XII)“
Lentejuelas, peluche, máscaras, silicona, costal y pelucas colgando
220cms x 82cms x20cms
2019

“Protesis 2”
Cadenas, pintura acrilica y plumas.
45cmx12cmx12cm
2019

“Prótesis 1”
Ensamblaje de cerámica, cadenas, plumas, cabello sintético, uñas acrílicas, brillos y chocker de cuero.
45 cms x 29 cms x 14 cms
2019