Marisabel Arias (Lima, PE)
Marisabel Arias (they / them)
Live and work between
Netherlands and Peru
Their practice focuses on the romantic and commercial representation of desire, falling in love, cuir* sexuality, and urban economies in the form of text, installation, and sculpture.
They obtained a master's degree in fine arts from the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland, in 2022. Their projects have been part of solo and group exhibitions, most recently at ICPNA-Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute (Peru), 80m2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima (Peru), CALM - Centre d'Art La Meute, Lausanne (Switzerland), Amore, Basel (Switzerland), Gessneralle, Zurich (Switzerland), ZonaMaco Art Fair, Mexico City (Mexico). They will participate in Material Art Fair (Mexico) on its upcoming edition in February 2025. They have also been selected for the residency Jan Van Eyck Academy for the period 2025.
Another axis in their work is collective and collaborative work. They have been part of the collective processes behind the digital platform Gifggenheim, - Mapeo Informal de Lima , which aims to visually and sonorously record the city of Lima, Oficina. M20- Savoy Hotel, where different artistic and curatorial projects were carried out to think critically about labor. They are currently a curator at the off space Ekumen, which is targeted to visibilize local artists of emerging contemporary art in Lima.
*One of the many ways in Spanish to say the English word queer / cuir.
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