CLAUDIA COCA: 25 YEARS OF ART AS RESISTANCE
ICPNA Cultural presents La piel de mi reino, a retrospective of the Peruvian artist Claudia Coca (Lima, 1970). This exhibition brings together works created from the mid-1990s to the present, reflecting the artist's unwavering commitment to researching, deconstructing, and reconstituting historical systems of representation.
Throughout her prolific career, Claudia Coca, a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, has explored and reappropriated various forms of image production that have been used to construct and perpetuate hierarchies of gender and race. In response, her work proposes the creation of a space of her own, free from dominant and colonial imaginaries, where artistic representation becomes a tool for resistance and social transformation.
Since her early years during the Fujimori dictatorship in the 1990s, her work has evolved from painting to drawing, embroidery, and video, without losing its critical focus on the representation of gender, race, the role of women in Peruvian society, and social class—anchored in neo-figurative neo-expressionism. Inspired by historical visual and textual sources ranging from Guaman Poma de Ayala’s chronicles to Western pop art and contemporary advertising iconography.
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Claudia Coca. La otra (2002). Óleo sobre tela. Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
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Claudia Coca. Luchadora. Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
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Claudia Coca. Mujeres que son capaces de todo por un hombre autoritario. Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
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Claudia Coca. Colonizados. Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
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Claudia Coca. Estudio del deseo No.1 (detalle). Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
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Claudia Coca. Paisaje del deseo (detalle). Cortesía de ICPNA Cultural
"If most people try to confine us within narrow and limiting categories, Coca’s work proposes a liberating vision of radical equality, not only for human beings but also for the organic and the mineral," says the exhibition curator, Dorota Biczel.
La piel de mi reino. Claudia Coca, 25 años y más will be on view until May 4 at the Germán Krüger Espantoso Gallery, Av. Angamos Oeste 160, Miraflores (Peru).
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