Like architecture, performance art is carried out in a space. However, unlike architecture, a performance is an action that deconstructs... Read More
Like architecture, performance art is carried out in a space. However, unlike architecture, a performance is an action that deconstructs time, eroding that same space: not lasting more than the moment and the experience, not intending to leave an edifice or monument beyond that which vanishes and is carried out in the ritual.
Kylla Piqueras is the great-granddaughter of architect Manuel Piqueras Cotolí, her illustrious predecessor known, above all, as the promoter of a new style of architecture in the country called “Neo-Peruvian”. This style sought to “return” to the
roots of the native cultures of Peru and merge them with Western culture. The result was surprising, due to the creative and compositional possibilities of a hybrid that had already yielded extraordinary results in colonial architecture and painting.
Kylla thus continues her great-grandfather’s legacy, with art and performances that are “Neo-Peruvian”, and therefore “Neo-Baroque” and post-modern, interspersing the ancestral with new technologies: reviving her ancestor’s buildings thanks to mapping and enveloping them in a neo-colonial ritual where the Andean demon and the Hispanic virgin reunite in an ancient, and at once contemporary, shamanic dance.
The performance is also music and bodies in motion, ephemeral signs of something that will disappear from space and vanish in time, but will remain in those who had feelings and visions born in that invisible eye of the imagination and internal experience.
Alfredo Villar
Curator
