Cindy Ramirez
Bio
Cindy Ramírez Álvarez (Lima, Peru-1988)
Cindy is a visual artist who graduated from the Sculpture program at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCP) of Peru and completed the Expanded Writings Diploma at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) of Mexico.
Her personal work focuses on researching communication tools us ed in Andean culture, such as quipus, tocapus, and the Quechua language.
She won the project competition of the 2021 Economic Incentives for Art granted by the Ministry of Culture of Peru. She was selected for the Tikay Art Lab artistic residency in Ecuador in 2022.
Her writings have been published in the book "Artware 7: Identity, Culture, and Digital Media," in the digital magazine Planisferio in Hidalgo, Mexico, and in the Science and Culture Journal of the Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo" in La Paz, Bolivia.
She has participated in solo and group shows both within and outside of Peru.
Statement
I was born in the city of Lima, but I come from a Quechua - speaking family in the Andean region of Peru (Apurímac), where the textile tradition has been and continues to be a
family heritage. That's why I seek a constant dialogue with my roots through my artistic practice, which I develop with the support of my mother. I approach my textiles from
different perspectives: manual, mechanical, and digital production. I engage with my textiles from different perspectives and through dis
tinct modes of production: manual craftsmanship, mechanical processes, and digital techniques.
The artistic process, in which I include my mother, speaks of unity, collectivity, and interconnection, as well as an ancestral tradition whose patterns are insc
ribed in materiality as signs of communication that transform over time. Using textile materiality demonstrates how I understand and share communication through a multi or interlanguage.
I am also interested in researching communication tools used in Andean culture, such asquipus, tocapus, and the Quechua language, placing significant emphasis on the
production of pre-Hispanic textiles understood as containers of iconography that was part of the visual discourse in the Andean world. My projects are a const ant quest to redefine pre-Hispanic symbols, contrasting them with the present and projecting them into the future.
My exploratory work aims to develop and create new "textile codes" that link two technologies generated in different eras and societies. With this, I seek to highlight the materiality of language that operates as a result of the development of new technologies but can find an interesting relationship with the past.
Additional information
Estas fotografías corresponden a una performance realizada en el Museo de Sitio Qorikancha el 1 de noviembre de 2022, en conmemoración del Día de los Muertos. La presentación establece una conexión evocadora con el mundo espiritual de la cultura andina. El Qorikancha es un lugar histórico y culturalmente significativo, una antigua fortaleza que albergaba las momias de los incas, conocidas como 'mallquis'. La performance es un poderoso llamado a los muertos, que nos recuerda el origen y la esencia de la región andina en esta parte del mundo.
