Peru

For more than a decade, photographer Roberto Huarcaya has roamed Peru, creating monumental photograms that – in the junction of photography, installation and land art – question our way of (re)presenting our environment. Countering present technophile trends, Huarcaya claims a craft that brings together heterogeneous elements (light, dust, water, plants, insects) on a photosensitive surface to elicit traces (images). This organic, experimental approach to the creative process allows Huarcaya to acknowledge existence as uncertain (foreign) and question the position of power Western culture has assumed on/over the world, returning to the cosmos some of its lost agency.
Huellas cósmicas (Cosmic Traces) is an installation that, through the assemblage of the works (a photogram, a sculpture and a musical composition) and the pavilion’s structural and environmental elements, places spectators in an undetermined experiential space/time, challenging their attention habits. Thus, Huellas cósmicas is, rather than a representational artistic proposal (it does not talk about this or that), performative; it operates as an immersive, transitive ritual haven to spark awareness, stoke the imagination and encourage meditation, inviting spectators to reassess their environment taking a sensitive, non-instrumental stance.