Art Forums: Sandra Gamarra Heshiki

Please join us for our Art Forums online artist talk with Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Wed, Oct 9, 3:30pm PST.

ZOOM LINK:
https://emilycarru.zoom.us/j/61726305217?pwd=PUA6rsobiDdrHDORXZy0AJdJfSg4nY.1
Meeting ID: 617 2630 5217
Passcode: 413176

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (1972) was born and raised in Lima, Gamarra studied fine arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2003 she moved to Madrid to complete her art studies where she has development her work until 2019. Utilizes painting in a figurative way to conceptually cross-examine art and its mechanisms. Based on appropriations, her work acts as a mirror that displaces exhibition formats, alters the circulation of images, subverts the ownership of culture as well as the narrative between art and its viewer. Within this field of investigation, her Peruvian background adds a sincretic gaze where pre-columbian, colonial and western cultures collide. Some of her recent exhibitions recontextualize art genres such as landscape, self-portrait or still life. In 2002, due to the lack of a contemporary art institution in Lima, she created LiMac. This fictitious museum first established itself with its logo on merchandize (pencils, erasers, mugs or bags). Since then, LiMac produced collections, exhibitions, publications, an architectural project and its website (www.li-mac.org). Lives and work in Madrid and Lima.

Presented by the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, hosted by FRMS: 300: Art Forums Course.