TWO PERUVIAN ARTISTS EXPLORE FOLIAGE AS MATERIAL AND METAPHOR AT LA MANCHA GALERÍA
Detrás del Follaje brings together textile works and drawings by Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos alongside paintings and ceramics by Fabiola Gonzáles.
La Mancha Galería presents Detrás del Follaje (Behind the Foliage), a two-person exhibition by Peruvian artists Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos and Fabiola Gonzáles. On view through September 4, 2026, the show brings together textile works and drawings by Ortiz de Zevallos alongside paintings and ceramics by Gonzáles, with foliage as a shared point of departure approached from distinct perspectives.
Gonzáles explores the emotional and social impact of plants, trees, and flowers in society, with particular attention to parks and patios as spaces of simultaneous permanence and impermanence. Her body of work draws on a photographic archive unified by location: parks and patios, settings for daily walks, family gatherings, and religious ceremonies. Rather than reproducing photographs as they appear, as curator Hanna Ballón Carneiro notes, the artist "captures the common landscapes she discovers in them — landscapes that take shape in these spaces through everyday gestures, repetitive movements, and emotional bonds with objects, architecture, and, above all, the surrounding vegetation."
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Obras por Fabiola Gonzáles en La Mancha Galería, Lima.Desde la izquierda: ‘Tantos días de calor, amor’, 2026, óleo sobre lienzo, 100 x 70 cm; ‘Ellos arman y desarman la eternidad’, 2026, óleo sobre lienzo, 190 x 150 cm. Foto por Nicolás Pereira
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Obras por Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos en La Mancha Galería, Lima. Desde arriba:‘Rencuentro’, 2026, ichu torcido envuelto en lana y algodón teñidos con tintes naturales, 145 x 127 x 20 cm; muestra del ichu, la materia prima utilizada para crear la obra. Foto por Nicolás Pereira
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Obras por Fabiola Gonzáles en La Mancha Galería, Lima. Desde la izquierda:‘Eres eterno, 2026, óleo sobre lienzo, 130 x 70 cm;‘Una visión particular’, 2026, óleo sobre lienzo, 100 x 70
cm; cerámicas creadas con moldes de guanábanas. Foto por Nicolás Pereira
Ortiz de Zevallos, by contrast, departs from the observation of ecosystems in public and private gardens to construct visually abstract works. Her installations with braided natural fibers — Andean ichu grass, trunks dyed with natural pigments, and cabuya fiber — bring nature literally into the exhibition space. The show presents three series: Muda, sculptures of braided ichu leaves wrapped in naturally dyed alpaca wool featuring two interlocked circular bodies; Dermis, which explores similarities between human physiology and that of other living beings; and Lunares, which draws comparisons between the human body and tree trunks.
Detrás del Follaje is on view through September 4, 2026 at La Mancha Galería, Av. Jorge Basadre 951, San Isidro, Lima, Peru.
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