ExhibitionMay 1, 2023
Ishmael Randall Weeks is Featured at ICPNA
The exhibition Ishmael Randall – Weeks: 20 años. Metalizamos nuestras memorias. The exhibition brings together nearly seventy pieces produced after his return to Peru in 2003, including drawings, collage, photography, sculpture, video and installation. Miguel A. López was in charge of the curatorial work.
For two decades Randall Weeks (Cusco, 1976) has developed a laboratory of forms. His work is based on an abstract language that, accompanied by his interest in architecture and a particular technical manual dexterity, involves the construction of elements such as beams, columns, concrete bases or wooden blocks. From this, the artist adds elements that refer to specific social spaces and geometric forms that propose historical times, for example, the modernist architecture of the Bauhaus or symbols of pre-Columbian cultures.
The Peruvian artist has dedicated much of his work to the investigation of construction processes and their relationship with different social contexts, without avoiding a search for the intimate and personal in the materials he uses. By playing with dualities such as: exterior-interior, exhibition-intimacy, collective-individual, among others, his body of work allows us to reflect on how we move and relate to different spaces, since daily life depends on both form and functionality.
For two decades Randall Weeks (Cusco, 1976) has developed a laboratory of forms. His work is based on an abstract language that, accompanied by his interest in architecture and a particular technical manual dexterity, involves the construction of elements such as beams, columns, concrete bases or wooden blocks. From this, the artist adds elements that refer to specific social spaces and geometric forms that propose historical times, for example, the modernist architecture of the Bauhaus or symbols of pre-Columbian cultures.
The Peruvian artist has dedicated much of his work to the investigation of construction processes and their relationship with different social contexts, without avoiding a search for the intimate and personal in the materials he uses. By playing with dualities such as: exterior-interior, exhibition-intimacy, collective-individual, among others, his body of work allows us to reflect on how we move and relate to different spaces, since daily life depends on both form and functionality.
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