Bio

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki {Lima, b.1972) utilizes painting in a figurative way to conceptually cross-examine art and its mechanisms. Based on appropriations, her work acts as a mirror that displaces exhibition formats, alters the circulation of images, subverts the ownership of culture as well as the narrative between art and its viewer. 

Within this field of investigation, her peruvian background adds a sincretic gaze where pre-columbian, colonial and western cultures collide. Some of her recent exhibitions recontextualize art genres such as landscape, self-portrait or still life. In 2002, due to the lack of a contemporary art institution in Lima, she created LiMac. 

This fictitious museum first established itself with its logo on merchandize (pencils, erasers, mugs or bags). Since then, LiMac produced collections, exhibitions, publications, an architectural project and its website.