Maria Gracia Ego-Aguirre Álvarez (1989)
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Graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Universidad Católica del Perú in the Specialty of Sculpture. Currently teaching at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) in the Faculty of Design and developing research and experimentation of natural materials in terms of a man-nature relationship and how they are related and how the natural environment manifests itself by putting in vulnerability the human being through its magnificence and the little control we have over it.
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The subject of my artistic work focuses on the territory taken as a body that lives and feels like us, the human beings, which actively manifests and transforms through its mutations and manifestations. A body that keeps an intrinsic relationship with the human being because it is the space that inhabits and contemplates but also the place that struggles and tries to control.
In my artistic work, I seek to show the territory as a series of spaces/bodies that show the power and immensity which can shake us and make us vulnerable through a series of manifestations that lead us to remember that this subsoil is made present many times without permission. This surface that is continuously underneath us, wherefrom this relationship with the human being, this sort of broken, open, fragmented, isolated, desolate, decontextualized bodies that emerge and show us that unique potential in we are contains. It is in the meeting of this series of fictions that these new bodies are found that do not dispense with a specific size or order, giving it an infinite possibility that shows the continuity of its surface and texture.
I try to show hidden evidence, which questions me, not only about the vastness of the territorial extension but also how fragile and little I am. A new view at the space around us, that lives and feels and makes us continually vulnerable.
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//Formación en la Facultad de Arte de la Universidad Católica del Perú en la Especialidad de Escultura. Actualmente docente en la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) en la Facultad de Diseño y desarrollando investigaciones y experimentaciones de materiales naturales en cuanto a una relación hombre-naturaleza y cómo es que éstos se relacionan y cómo el ambiente natural se manifiesta poniendo en vulnerabilidad al ser humano mediante su magnificencia y el poco control que tenemos sobre ella.
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En su mayoría, mi trabajo artístico se centra en el territorio tomado como un cuerpo que vive y siente como nosotros, el cual activamente se manifiesta y transforma. Tomando esto en cuenta se plantean una serie de espacios y restos de superficies que brotan, basados en diferentes accidentes geográficos, y juegan con cambios de escala mediante una suerte de elementos adheridos. Haciendo así, una serie de ficciones donde se encuentran nuevos espacios que no prescinden de un tamaño u orden especifico, dándole una posibilidad infinita que muestra la continuidad de su superficie y textura.
Intento así, con las obras mostrar una evidencia escondida, una nueva mirada al espacio que nos rodea que vive y siente y es vulnerable al nosotros estar inmersos en este.
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Exhibitions //Exhibiciones
2020 Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Holland; 202; The Núcleo Collection Exhibition, Lima, Perú;
2019 Bienal Internacional of Art, Beijing, China; Terra-Habitantes Vol I y Vol II, Collective Exhibition, San Isidro, Lima; 2017 Ficciones Naturales Bipersonal Exhibition at Cultural Center: El Olivar, Miraflores, Lima; 2016 Haciendo la audición Collective Exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) Barranco, Lima; SERES I, Collective Exhibition at Seres Gallery, Asia Boulevard, Lima; 2012 Universo Denso, Collective Exhibition, Miraflores, Lima.
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Seminars, Residecies, Symposiums and Programs //Seminarios, Residencias, Simposios y Programas
2020 Dutch Invertuals Academy, “True Matter”, Holland; 2019 Symposium: Bienal Internacional de Arte, Beijing, China; 2018 Seminar for the preservation of the Cjultural Heritage of America Latina, Beijing/Nanjing/Hangzhou, China; 2017 Despina Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Workshops
2019 Workshop Des-aprender, Facultad de Diseño, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Surco, Lima; Workshop Cerámica experimental, Facultad de diseño de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Surco, Lima 2017 Workshop de cerámica, Remote Year, Miraflores, Lima, Perú.
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Publications //Publicaciones
2020 Nucleo Book, Lima-Perú.
2020 Nucleo Catalog.
2019 Bienal de Arte Internacional de Beijing, China, Catalog.
2016 Textos arte, Publication of artworks: "Erupcions" and "Active Space".
2015 Textos arte, Publication of artworks: "Un límite llamado expansión".
2014 Textos arte, Publication of artworks: Drawings.
2013 Soñadores, La Plaza, theater.
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