Currently: Benjamín Cieza and Fernando Nureña

To inquire into the origins. Trace them in the family album. To figure them. In La casa y la fábrica we see two series of paintings that, although different, work under a common search. One series traces the journey that goes from migration to the house of one's own, to private property in the city. A property that also migrates from the paternal side to the maternal side of the family. Then, the domestic interior as a space that supports one's own existence, where one finds the conditions that allow one to be who one is. The album appears as the source of a history that is not entirely one's own and not entirely alien, and the detail is the way to appropriate it in order to seek a generalization in which other gazes can recognize themselves.

Another series records the displacements in the social space from the factory to the cellar and from the cellar to the bedroom. Now the album is read as a historical document, as a source available to capture the hopes and impasses of a class, rooted in the photos of the paternal grandmother and in the views of the father and mother as a couple. Here the family photograph does not break down into detail, but wants to become a glimpse of history.
 

[Excerpt Mijail Mitrovic's curatorial text]

La Casa y la Fábrica
Benjamín Cieza Hurtado & Fernando Nureña Cruz
Curated by Mijail Mitrovic
Until June 11th

ICPNA LIMA CENTRO | Jr Cuzco 446 - Lima