Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director, MASP; Florencia Portocarrero, independent curator; Guilherme Giufrida, assistant curator, MASP; and Sharon Lerner, artistic director, MALI.
The first retrospective exhibition of the work of Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (Lima, Peru, 1972) brings together approximately 80 pieces from her career over the last 25 years. Since the late 1990s, Gamarra’s work has adopted an institutional critique perspective, as seen through the creation of the fictional LiMac museum. Gamarra questions the neutrality of artistic representations by critically appropriating paintings and sculptures, particularly from the colonial period. She establishes the "replica" as a form of response to established narratives. The organization of the exhibition itself imitates and critiques the traditional chronology of Latin American museums. The exhibition is organized in partnership with the Lima Art Museum (MALI).