Installation composed of a series of ceramic sculptures. Photos were taken during the art fair Art Rotterdam, at exhibition “Prospects” from the Mondriaan Fund.
Materials: stoneware, engobe, pigments, oxides, glaze, metal and wood. Ceramic sculptures fired between 1060 and 1120 degrees celcius.
Sizes: 2 masks of 35 cm diameter, 6 smaller masks of 18 cm diameter, 1 table with legs 70x60x45 cm, an assemblage sculpture of 60 x45 cm, and one bigger sculpture 130 cm high within a 9m2 space.

This installation confronts and redeems unfair power dynamics that cohabit within the intersections of class, race and gender within the Peruvian society. “Chicha Flow” was partly inspired in the many ancestral and native beliefs in relation to divinities, gods, nature spirits and their relation to us in the contemporary time. What would they say to our conflicted society?
In this installation I used masks, and body sculptures inspired in the Wiracocha divinity and in the Pachamama or mother earth divinity.

Wiracocha, the Peruvian ancestral god goes through a transformation, see photo of sculpture of an antlered head sitting in a bowl. They get rid of the colonial narrative that made them appear as the christian father god in the sky. These imposed narratives were used by Spanish colonisers to make indigenous Peruvians belief in christianity. Because of this, the worship to Wiracocha disappeared from religious rituals in the Andes. In my sculptural representation, Wiracocha becomes a badass ceramic goddess from the skies eating bubble gum from Peruvian street vendors.