ROBERTO HUARCAYA’S PHOTOGRAMS AT MARCO VIGO
The exhibition brings together a decade of technical and poetic experimentation that transcends the traditional boundaries of photography and places visual experience at the center of reflection.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo (MARCO) presents a solo exhibition devoted to the photographic production that Roberto Huarcaya (Lima, Peru, 1959) has developed over the past decade. Interstices. Photograms 2014–2025 explores, from a critical standpoint, the artist’s ongoing innovation and experimentation in portraying the relationship between humankind and nature as a shared environment.
Huarcaya’s practice focuses on the use of large-format photograms, a technique that often dispenses entirely with the camera. His most distinctive works emerge from the direct contact between natural elements and photosensitive paper deployed in situ, allowing the physical and symbolic presence of nature to be recorded without mediation. Among the series that structure this body of work are Amazogramas, Andegramas, and Océanos, along with pieces created using processes such as cyanotype and Van Dyke brown.
Through this approach, Huarcaya challenges traditional notions of framing and composition, proposing instead a form of visual knowledge rooted in sensory experience. The result is a space for reflection on immediacy, time, and memory, where matter and light interact to generate works that exist between the photographic and the sculptural, while also evoking ritual and performative dimensions.
Roberto Huarcaya. Interstices. Photograms 2014–2025 is on view at MARCO, Príncipe 54, Vigo (Spain), through March 29, 2026.
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