Handmade

Abstract

Handmade is a series of paintings that reinterpret the back page of the Trome newspaper —primarily the “Las Malcriadas” section— transforming it into a personal and popular diary. This gesture stems from an intimate need: to narrate from the everyday, from the tension between what we feel and what we are not always able to process. It is a confrontational and political proposition that presents the intimate as a terrain in opposition to the structural.
I do not seek to represent a homogeneous “conera identity,” but rather to articulate a situated perspective marked by the experience of inhabiting the urban margins of Lima. In a context where material priorities determine the rhythm of life, the emotional is often displaced. However, this affective dimension endures in covert ways: through consumption or certain cultural practices that function symbolically as escape valves or resistance.
This series shifts the morbid fascination of the pornographic toward the passionate: the current context of violence, everyday fear, aspirations, broken relationships, family, and friends. What is presented in this essay are not bodies for visual desire, but ruminating thoughts and fictions interrupted by reality.