XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA (Peru, 1980) has a degree in fine arts from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a master’s degree from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Her solo exhibitions include Lines of Divergence, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2018), Estados nativos [Native States], MALBA, Buenos Aires (2017), Insurgências botânicas: Phaseolus Lunatus [Botanical Insurgencies: Phaseolus Lunatus], Sala de Arte Pública Siqueiros, Mexico City (2017); Tomada de terra [Land Grab], Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid (2015); Los Suelos, MATE, Museo Mario Testino, Lima (2014); and Paisaje Antrópico, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2012). Her recent collective exhibitions include Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kinkgdom (2017), and The Late Shift, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2016).
Over the course of three years the artist documented a series of structures made with bamboo and wood, built in the middle of the desert to lay claim to the land. A spontaneous mobilization of Andean farming communities, the demarcated area is gradually inhabited, in a process of land possession that became very common around Lima from the 1950s. The video LINES OF DIVERGENCE (2018) is the last chapter in the documentation of invasions near Pucusana. The chalk lines in the desert divide newly registered land into lots and demarcate the new plots.
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