MOTHERHOOD AND INTERGENERATIONAL BONDS AT MUCEN: A WORK BY ARIANA MACEDO DOMÍNGUEZ
The visual artist, winner of the 2023 BCRP National Painting Prize, presents her latest solo exhibition—an interdisciplinary proposal that weaves together painting, textiles, and performance.
The Central Museum (MUCEN) of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru presents Soy tierra, soy raíz (I Am Earth, I Am Root) a solo exhibition by Peruvian visual artist Ariana Macedo Domínguez, first-place winner of the 14th edition of the National Painting Contest organized by the institution.
Curated by Giuliana Vidarte, the exhibition brings together a selection of paintings, drawings, weavings, embroideries, installations, and performances created between 2017 and 2025. This body of work offers an intimate and collective reflection on contemporary motherhoods, gendered responsibilities imposed on female subjects, family ties, and the memories passed down through generations.
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Ariana Macedo Domínguez. Piezas de la performance 'Celebrar tejiendo' (2024), tejido a mano en lana acrílica y cola sintética. Cortesía MUCEN
Soy tierra, soy raíz is also the outcome of a natural—and emotional—transition from painting to textile arts such as embroidery and sewing: practices Ariana embraced during the pandemic, deeply connected to her experience as a mother, daughter, and woman. In her work, textile ceases to be merely decorative and becomes a medium for visual narratives about care, time, and the female body.
“This exhibition is an embrace. The last embrace Ariana was able to give her mother; the same embrace she now shares with her three children: a collective, intergenerational embrace with the women of her family lineage. We hope that this embrace also reaches the visitors, holds them, and accompanies them in their encounter with these works, which bear witness to Ariana’s experiences as a mother, painter, and weaver,” writes Vidarte in the curatorial text.
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Sala de exposición Soy tierra, soy raíz. Cortesía MUCEN
Among the most significant pieces in the exhibition is the installation In a River, All the Seeds, displayed in the center of the gallery. According to the curator, it “pays homage to the artist’s maternal lineage with a woven river that evokes the confluence of their life stories in the force and shape of the Marañón River, whose tributary nourishes Huacrachuco.”
Ariana Macedo Domínguez (Lima, Peru, 1976) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art with a specialization in Painting from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she also completed studies in Education. She has taken additional courses on arts integration and cultural project management at various institutions.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Peru and abroad, and has been selected as a finalist for the ICPNA Contemporary Art Prize 2024, the Contemporary Textile Art Biennial 2024 in Portugal, the IPAE Business Sculpture Prize in 2024 and 2023, the ICPNA Contemporary Art Prize 2021, the 12th BCRP National Painting Contest 2021, Maravillarte – Perú una obra de arte 2021, and as a semifinalist in the 4th Two Generations Drawing Contest (Established Artists category, Británico Cultural, 2021), and the 13th BCRP National Painting Contest 2022.
She has also exhibited at Hybrid Art Fair Madrid and Pinta Miami 2024, where her video performance Soy tierra, soy raíz was screened. Her work is included in collections such as the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Arte Al Límite Museum (Chile), the Embassy of Peru in Poland, and other international private collections.
Soy tierra, soy raíz will be on view through August 31 at MUCEN, Jr. Lampa 474, Lima (Peru).
*Cover image: Installation view Ana Macedo Domínguez. Soy tierra, soy raíz. Courtesy MUCEN.
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