By
María Laura Hernández de Agüero
NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI: A HISTORY OF MIGRATION AND VIOLENCE AT THE ICPNA CULTURAL IN MIRAFLORES
The exhibition Lengua materna (Mother language) is a journey through the intimate and social spaces that have shaped the work of the artist.
April 23, 2026
NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI. Colonial Wound. Installation of watercolors on cardboard, 500 x 450 cm, 2025
Embroidery, a craft she inherited from her mother and grandmother, emerges as a common thread throughout her practice. Through 150 works encompassing watercolor, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, embroidery, and installation, Nareida Apaza Mamani shows us how stories of migration and displacement become cartographies, maps, and family trees.
With a perspective that blurs the lines between the biographical and the social, the artist invites us to reflect on play, education, history, and the enduring traces of political violence. “The exhibition traces migration narratives and questions what it means to belong in a country marked by discrimination and centralism. The daughter of parents from Puno—a seamstress mother and a public school teacher father who compiled a newspaper archive about the internal armed conflict—her work explores how the memory of these displacements is embodied and transmitted,” writes Miguel López, curator of the exhibition.
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NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI. Silencio, 2024. Instalación textil de uniformes escolares pintados con acrílico, 430-100-x-30-cm
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NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI
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NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI. Cartografías 4, 2013. Serie de 4 acuarelas sobe cartulina, 33 x 33 cm cada una
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NEREIDA APAZA MAMANI. Escrito está, 2021. Instalación de ropas bordadas, medidas variables
The artist's notebooks, begun in 2009, are a testament to poetry's capacity to open up often-silenced conversations. In them, the artist offers us tactile, often soft, objects that allow us to touch the past and delicately transmit knowledge. Apaza Mamani's work is a gesture of hope in a world marked by discrimination and centralism. Her serious yet tender gaze reminds us that pointing out a wound not only makes suffering visible but also opens paths to healing. In this sense, Lengua Materna is a call to reflection, a reminder that memory is a political act and that creation is an act of resistance.
The exhibition will run until July 5, 2026, at ICPNA Espacio Germán Krüger Espantoso Avenida Angamos Oeste 120, Miraflores, Lima (Peru).
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