Ana Teresa Barboza

Ana Teresa Barboza (Lima, 1981) uses weaving and other traditional artisanal techniques to convey a meditative and powerful observation of everything that surrounds her. Initially, her work focused on human body awareness, representing it as a segmented, reassembled, and decorated structure through sewing and embroidery to reflect on its relationship with others. Later, her focus shifted to the environment, concentrating on the bonds that connect her to others. Her work evolved to acquire a more social character, opening up to reflections on the transformation of nature and the relationship or contact between humans and the natural world. She uses embroidery and weaving to draw parallels between manual labor and natural processes, creating thread structures similar to those produced by plants, for example. Some pieces simulate experiments aimed at reordering nature, encouraging us to reconsider how we view it. Her current work seeks to relearn from the labor of artisans to reconnect with the manual and bodily processes through which heritage, culture, and images have been formed, highlighting the traces left by the body and nature within them. A graduate of the Faculty of Art, she has participated in solo and collective exhibitions in South America, North America and Europe and has expanded her studies and completed residencies in Paris, Taipei, Geneva, Lima and Spain. During 2022 she has been selected for the Paiz Biennial (Guatemala), the Sydney Biennial (Australia) and the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) and has held a solo exhibition at the Malba, Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires