MUEVE GALLERY OPENS IN LIMA WITH AN OFFERING: A DIALOGUE OF RITUAL AND POLITICS
The space brings together nine artists who turn sculpture into domestic ritual and affective politics: installations that listen, fragmented bodies, maps of memory.
MUEVE Gallery has opened in Lima, a new space dedicated to representing emerging and mid-career artists “whose practices expand and challenge local and international imaginaries,” as the institution expressed. The opening was accompanied by the exhibition Ofrenda, curated by Florencia Portocarrero. Humble in its materiality—flowers, clay, remnants—yet powerful in its purpose, the offering is understood as a passage between the human and the divine. This ritual logic is transposed into the gallery space to summon presences, generate resonances, and sustain dialogues between matter and memory.
Aileen Gavonel turns clay into listening: pieces that seem to throb, wounds that heal with tenderness. Her clay is a method of resistance, a technology of care that proposes repair as a political act. Alice Wagner distorts the object with irony: deconstructing everyday narratives to expose the fissures beneath the surface. Her interventions are inverted compasses pointing to hidden stories within the familiar.
Genietta Varsi, in turn, weaves somas and territories. Her sculptures breathe like living organisms—pores, fluids, maps of relations between body and landscape that blur the boundaries between the biological and the social. Meanwhile, Irazema Vera transforms listening into cartography, creating soundscapes that bring highland memory into the exhibition space, summoning collective recollections in the face of environmental crisis.
Jimena Kato proposes landscapes of magma and sand—immersive environments where the industrial and the organic converse, and where her Japanese and Peruvian heritage becomes material that interrogates the notion of permanence. Katherine Fiedler works in layers: fossils, ceramics, and urban remnants assembled to unearth the genealogies of the landscape, showing that politics are also inscribed in the subsoil.
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Vista de instalación "Ofrenda", en MUEVE Galería. Cortesía de MUEVE Galería
María Abaddon places flesh and absence in the foreground. Her fragmented bodies, softened by pastel palettes, compel us to view everyday violence with a distance that both wounds and moves. Marisabel Arias explores queer desire and affective economies: installations that reclaim affection as a political force and resignify romance from a dissident stance. Pati Camet revalues ornament as a critical gesture, transforming the decorative into a device of subversion, irony, and feminist memory—a small armor against the patriarchy of bronze.
Together, the works are offered. Ofrenda weaves a fabric of affinities where fragility is tactile, listening political, and materiality a verb. With this exhibition, MUEVE Gallery emerges in Lima as a territory in constant motion. Welcome, then, to a space that prefers to summon thresholds rather than erect statues.
Ofrenda will be on view through October 17 at MUEVE Gallery, Jr. Colina 128, 2nd floor, Barranco, Lima (Peru).
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