Sandra Gamarra

Sandra Gamarra trained in Fine Arts at the Universidad Pontificia Católica del Peru and at the University of Cuenca, Spain. She currently lives and works in Madrid. Her multidisciplinary production – including sculpture, painting, video, texts and installation – sets out to critique the notion of modernity. Whether it is artistic modernity, with works that question the place and mechanisms of the exhibition space and musealisation, as well as the pictorial tradition. In a more historical and political vein, other pieces document episodes of colonial abuse. Gamarra incorporates methodologies specific to the archive, documentation, appropriation and miscegenation of non-artistic objects transferred to the field of art to denounce the role and historical responsibility of the West in colonial exploitation.