Claudia Martínez Garay will be exhibiting at the 2025 edition of the Sharjah Biennial (AE).
The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered.
The biennial is curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala, and Zeynep Öz. It will be on view from 6 February until 15 June 2025.
Working across various mediums, Claudia Martínez Garay explores Andean culture and its historicisation. Her practice critically examines European museum collections and history while revisiting various registers of visual culture from her native Peru, such as pre-Columbian artefacts, mythology and propaganda. The artist’s woven textiles series Pacha takes its title from the Andean Cosmovision concept of the indivisible unity of space and time. In Quechua (an indigenous language from the Andes), Pacha also refers to three cosmological realms: the upper world, the living world and the underworld.
Martínez Garay’s Pacha series references Indigenous Peruvian culture, ethnographic study and personal symbolism. These textile works defy linear time, collapsing and intertwining past, present and future with pathos and humour.
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