Kylla

Kylla works on different artistic disciplines, as part of a tireless spiritual search. Self-taught by choice, she studied design and plastic arts in Toulouse Lautrec, Corriente Alterna and humanities studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Performer and dancer, she has studied classical, modern, contemporary, oriental and folk dance. Its body proposal articulates movement as a tool for self-healing, integration and connection with the universe we inhabit.

For 15 years he has been researching the richness of Peru's medicinal plants and studying the sacred symbology of the different spiritual traditions of the world.

Great-granddaughter of the sculptor and architect Manuel Piqueras Cotolí (Córdoba 1885 - Lima 1937), who was born in Lucerne (Cordoba, Spain) but is considered Peruvian since his greatest works were for and through Peru. He was one of the most important figures of the so-called neo-Peruvian movement, whose thesis was to create an autonomous Peruvian style based on pre-Columbian art and modernism. Because of this, it is considered to have had a decisive role in the cultural history of modern Peru.

Kylla treasures the creative legacy and proposes continuity in that vision, through various techniques and textures, in its cloaks. Inks and dyeing, painting and screen printing, acrylic bases, glitter, embroidery, rhinestones and carving are the elements she uses in her work, integrating expressions of popular, ancestral and contemporary art in a unique language. In this way it recreates a consistent, synergistic and powerful cultural syncretism.

Kylla lived for more than 10 years in the Peruvian Andes researching ancestral textile techniques and developed a creativity education project.

She has held group and individual exhibitions in Lima, Cusco, Sao Paulo, Mexico, China, USA, London, Russia and Qatar. In 2014 she won the VI National Painting Contest of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.