I am inspired by the visual aesthetics from Peruvian pre-Columbian art like the Wari Textile Tunics. The bold colors and patterns visible in the textiles speak on their socio-cultural structure from life in the 500AD in the highland Peru. I am indexing the symbols and iconography in my paintings to lead my work to the political conversation with topics on how to live through cultural survivance in the contemporary. My works are explores the language from cultural identity with the Western modern to think on how to subvert the idea from old western and how to maintain cultural inheritance through traditional customs.

Maria del Pilar Arrieta

Ranges

In my painting Renaissance, I bring ideas of dualism and transformation rooted in the language of the ancient Andean art with cultural identity in the contemporary. Duality express in the way of a cultural structure in this piece, not as a gender, but in the way to think of two opposite places that I lived in. Using the two figures mirroring I think in my work on the unsettling between the piece and the viewer in a way to reflect on the past and the present. I am narrating stories indexing pre-Columbian iconography that remind me where I come from and how I  maintain alive the continuity of my cultural inheritance.

Renaissance

This painting talks about the resilience, the vulnerability, and the empathy of human conditions. I am inspired by artist from Western renaissance and the studies of the human figure with the painting The Three Graces. Renaissance artist Paul Rubens informs in my work how the portrayal of the radiance, the joy and the nature of human life was a living form of expression in the renaissance, and how I can use these references within the modern to express the ambiguity of what it means todays experiencing the uncertain, the grief, and the anxiety in the way we struggle conditions of life today. I am using the language from cultural identity with modern geometric forms; and the figurative self-portrait to talk in the contemporary. The three self-portraitures resemble the metaphors from living different perspectives and I want to the viewer to feel the connection of the sensibility with the realities of what is to live today.

Three Graces

In this painting I navigate through the language of ancient Andean art thinking in resemblance of history, dance, and folkloric art and how tradition is merged in contemporary culture. Through this ambiguity, I am using visual aesthetics merged with modern abstraction to reflect on how the beauty and energy of traditional culture is merged in contemporary art.

Duality of Dance

This painting is a representation of two female portraitures overlapped in a set of patterns and geometric abstraction. In my work, I use the imagery from experiences and stories indexing traditional art and Western modern that can lead to a political conversation. My painting let me reflect about the agency in female portrayal in contemporary culture, within race, migration, and displacement.

The Sisters

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Young Lady with Flowers

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