ELIZABETH VASQUEZ
n.b. 1990. Lima, Perú
STATEMENT · BIO
Elizabeth Vásquez Arbulú develops an artistic practice grounded in found objects and archives, which she replicates, documents, and deconstructs to construct installations where architecture, geography, and archaeology converge. Her work examines these fields as modes of approaching territory and the symbols that participate in the construction of sociocultural imaginaries.
Through the displacement and transformation of materials, the artist explores the relationships between memory, territory, and representation, assigning new meanings to objects that function as traces of specific contexts. Her practice is also characterized by the juxtaposition of local artisanal techniques and digital media, generating a productive tension between traditional forms of making and contemporary processes of reproduction and documentation.
At this intersection, Vásquez Arbulú constructs installations that operate as spaces of research and reinterpretation, where the everyday, the documentary, and the material converge to question the ways in which territories are constructed, inhabited, and remembered.
TRAJECTORY
2025
Tééhi Túwa — Screening as part of the Muyuna Festival program.
2024–2025
Naming Natures. Natural History and Colonial Legacy — CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2023
Devenir tierra — Group exhibition, 80m² Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru.
2020
Carpa Interdimensional — Group exhibition, El Garaje, Lima, Peru.
Des-bordes — Group exhibition, CV Galería, Bloc Art Perú, in collaboration with Aninat Galería, Santiago, Chile.
Corazón, Pulmones, Hígado — Matadero Cultural, Madrid, Spain.
2019
Time & Temperature — Art Gallery at El Centro College, Dallas, United States.
Jornada de Puertas Abiertas — Presented as part of ARCO Perú, Centro de Residencias de Artes Visuales Matadero, Madrid, Spain.
VideoTranslaciones: Miradas por espacios — Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
2018
Artefacto de Lectura 1 — El Garaje, Lima, Peru.
Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales de Trujillo — Lima, Peru.
Colecciones de un código temporal — Site-specific project at Cubil, an occupied space located in a building scheduled for demolition, Lima, Peru.
Hoffman's House — Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
2017
20th Festival of Contemporary Art, VIDEOBRASIL — SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil.
BIENALSUR — International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South.
Hawapi 2017: Triángulo Terrestre — Presented as part of BIENALSUR, Centro Cultural San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
Hawapi 2017: Triángulo Terrestre — Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile.
Encuentro de Fotolibros En CMYK — Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CDF), Montevideo, Uruguay.
Les Chercheurs d’Our — Château de St. Auvent, Limousin, France.
E_01_video [Sesión de videoarte] — Seres Galería, in collaboration with El Sótano, Lima, Peru.
Generación Y — Y Gallery, Lima, Peru.
Altas Temperaturas — Seres Galería, Lima, Peru.
2016
5th Anniversary of Campos de Gutiérrez — Fundación Campos de Gutiérrez, Medellín, Colombia.
SERES — First group exhibition at Galería SERES, Lima, Peru.
2015
Proyecciones de Tierra — Two-person exhibition, Centro Colich, Lima, Peru.
Sueños húmedos — Bisagra, Lima, Peru.
Laboratorio de Proyectos de Investigación Artística — Wu Galería, directed by Max Hernández.
2013
6th Edition of the International University Visual Arts Biennial — Toluca, Mexico.
XXXIV Salón Nacional de Grabado — ICPNA, Lima, Peru.
Estados de matriz — Galería Juan Pablo Heeren–ICPNA, Lima, Peru.
XI Biennale Internazionale per l’Incisione — Italy.
Cuadro por Cuadro: una intervención en celuloide — Workshop led by Mark Street and Uzu Sabah, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI).
Taller de Arte y Cuerpo Social — Workshop with Camila Ramírez, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru.
2012
Universo denso — House scheduled for demolition, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.
2011
Céu, terra e subsolo — Gravaduras — Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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CATALOGUE · COLLECTION
PUBLICATIONS
Educación Forestal.
Membrana Ediciones, 2018
Callejón del Buque.
Membrana Ediciones, 2017
Matar la vasija.
Membrana Ediciones, 2016
La calle, la naturaleza, los hallazgos y los recuerdos.
Recuento de Sesiones de Sesión Amplificada de Arcilla y Sonido.