Antonio Paucar (Huancayo, 1973) Currently lives and works in Berlin and Huancayo. In 1997 he studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1998 he started his studies in visual arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weisensee and from 2001 he continued his studies in visual arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK. In 2005 he completed a postgraduate program in visual arts with Professor Rebecca Horn at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK. His most recent solo exhibitions include: Caminos cargados de memoria, Ministry of Culture DDC Junín (Peru, 2016); the White Cube Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Manila, 2015). His latest collective exhibitions include: Acts of Passage, Te Tuhi, Auckland (New Zealand, 2018); Extracorporeal (Beyond the body) at the Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles 2018); Unfinished Glossary at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin, 2018); Video Art of Latin America, LAXART (Los Angeles, 2017). Paucar has been awarded renowned scholarships and residencies such as: Casa GIAP, San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas (Mexico 2018); Moontower Foundation, Bad König, 2016; and Villa Aurora (Los Angeles, 2014).
Elizabeth Vásquez (Trujillo, 1990) Her work departs from found objects, which she replicates, records and reproduces in installations. Vásquez has participated in group exhibitions with video art projects, such as: the 20th Festival of Contemporary Art of Videobrasil (Brazil, 2017) and Hawapi: Terrestrial Triangle (Peru-Chile 2018-2017). Recent site specific projects include: Proyecciones de Tierra (2016) and Colecciones de un código temporal (2018). In 2016, she founded Polen ceramic studio; a platform to investigate ceramic processes. In 2017 she started developing a program of pre-Columbian studies specialized in “sound ceramics”, as well as in the revaluation and diffusion of ancestral techniques through community work. She is currently researching the sound of archaeological objects and the encrypted language in ancient Peru. This investigation will unfold in a sequence of sound installations; the first of which was presented at the Encuentro de Artes Visuales de Trujillo this year.
Frances Munar (Lima, 1990) Her practice studies and focuses on sound in the pre-Columbian world, understanding it as a space for healing. Munar has an interest in investigating the body in relation to heritage, the Latin American identity, the colonizing ideologies, and high and popular art. She was part of the Uberbau House residency program in Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2018). Her most recent collective exhibitions include: Generation Y at Y Gallery (Lima, 2017); Hacer Llorar al Instrumento at Ch.ACO (Santiago de Chile, 2017); La voz que se oye at the Amano Museum (Lima, 2018). She has been a project coordinator at Polen ceramic studio since 2017, where she has developed sound ceramic workshops in order to socialize and disseminate ancestral techniques. Her first solo show A través de una línea fronteriza was part of Art Lima 2018, for which she won the Ca.Sa award.