Opening
Saturday 29 July 2023
15 – 21 hrs.
Culinary experiences by Colectivo Amasijo, Mexico
Performance by Timo Paris, Switzerland
29 July – 27 August 2023
Friday – Sunday
14 – 17 hrs.
Or by appointment, please contact [email protected]
Sperlavia
Bröl 61
7546 Ardez
Switzerland
proyectoamil is pleased to invite you to the exhibitions Vitalidad by Rita Ponce de León and Los brotes by Esteban Igartua. For this second edition, we have invited two Peruvian artists based abroad to show their work at our exhibition and residency space in Ardez to give continuity to our relationships over time.
proyectoamil is a mobile and fluid contemporary art platform that operates both in Lima, Peru and Ardez, Switzerland and serves as a bridge between the Peruvian and international art scenes. Since founded in 2010, we have developed artistic, editorial, residency and educational programs. We host, produce, and commission exhibitions, artistic interventions, and performances. Our sustained experimental and collaborative public program, manifests as discussions, screenings, performances, concerts, workshops, and an annual educational laboratory for young artists.
Rita Ponce de León
Vitalidad
The exhibition includes two installations and a series of drawings, interconnected by a collaborative and participatory spirit. These works were produced for the Aichi Triennial, Japan 2022 and adapted to the context of this exhibition. In addition, the artist has spent a month in residence in the Lower Engadin, incorporating the nurturing experiences she lived and the spirit of this amazing place into new works. Rita tries to share the diversity and richness of life in a poetic and experiential way through physically interactive experiences with her works.
Esteban Igartua
Los brotes
The work depicts landscapes and scenes that highlight the organic aspect of human life, and its immersion in a natural world of growth, disease, decomposition, and regeneration. There is skin, with fissures, porosities, holes, and other features of the face or the human body in general, blending into an external landscape. The boundary between the human being and the surrounding environment is blurred and sometimes indistinguishable.
Culinary experiences by Colectivo Amasijo, Mexico
Performance by Timo Paris, Switzerland
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rita Ponce de León studied visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda in Mexico. She recently graduated from training in the system of psycho-corporal techniques at the Argentinean organization Rio Abierto, as well as training in somatic movement education from the Bodymind Movement program. Rita´s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennial, in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the originary neighborhood of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the 80M2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (2013), among others. Her work has been reviewed in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing, published by Phaidon Press (2013). She collaborates recurrently with Joelle Gruenberg, Yaxkin Melchy, Tania Solomonoff, and Esthel Vogrig.
Esteban Igartua studied painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and then at the Slade School of Arts and Byam Shaw, London. In 2003 his work was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which that year took place in Manchester and London. His latest solo exhibitions include; “Cauliflower”, proyectoamil, Lima, 2018, “Excursion”, Garúa, Lima, 2015 and “Occupied Field”, Revolver Galería, Lima, 2012. His work has been included in group shows in Peru, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain, Albania, and Colombia and has been referenced in publications such as “77 Artistas Contemporáneos Peruanos” (2017), edited by the Mario Testino Museum – MATE and New Contemporaries 2003. In 2019 proyectoamil published “Cauliflower”, which included the works that were part of the exhibition and texts by contemporary Peruvian writers. Currently, he lives and works in Bristol, UK.
Colectivo Amasijo is a group of women from different parts of Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, State of Mexico, and Mexico City) united in their desire to actively reflect on the origin and diversity of our food. The collective was born in 2019 and ever since, has been providing a platform for non– dominant voices: the narratives of women close to the land, stories that tell us the real cost of climate change and show us the way towards the regeneration of the land. As an open collective they cook collectively to share, learn, care, conserve, relate and celebrate the (bio)diversity of food. Their projects are aimed at making visible the interdependence between language, culture, and territory. Through these projects, that can take the form of gatherings, dinners, research, actions, ceremonies, exhibitions, markets, seminars, film, talks or other the collective builds the needed structures to form a community in which taking care and taking care of the territory in relation to food is priority. Since 2022 they have a kitchen in Mexico City Center. In this collective kitchen they cook all the ingredients that the network of women, from different communities they work with, grow in their patios, milpas, and collect from the communal forest.
