Ana De Orbegoso
Walking together: for them and for us
Feminist Projections
In the last decade of her artistic work Ana has made an emphasis in rescuing the history, the individual and the collective memory. In this specific proposal De Orbegoso puts the accent on the present.
Her active political participation in issues related to women's rights makes her reflect on the effort that millions of women have been making to achieve gender equality, taking her approache to non- daily places. This daily performance makes her walk the streets taking photographs of marches and other images associated with women's empowerment.
She then travels around New York City and projects the images onto buildings, objects and human bodies. The works are the result of this interaction.
Power vest
In a world where violence against women is a constant, this proposal reflects on the resistance and resilience that women have to use to confront adversity and emphasizes women as the key to the development of society.
A power vest: is a kind of shield with affirmations associated with what women live with every day. A statement, a banner that preaches about the daily struggle to achieve equal rights.
Superheroins with the same goal. And the sorority that allows us to achieve it.
Ana de Orbegoso (Perú, 1964)
Her interdisciplinary artistic practice explores different aspects of the individual or social psyche with popular iconography and situations on stage.
De Orbegoso’s objective is to confront the viewer with a mirror, to awaken recognition, thought and memory. For the artist, identity and gender are reflections always present in her artistic production.
BIO
De Orbegoso is a 2008 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts; grant 2008 by NALAC - National Association of Latino Arts & Culture; has been selected for Descubrimientos Photo España07/09; Interstice Spe Multicultural Caucus (2007); 1st. Biennial of Lima, Peru (1997); National Contest of Women Artists USA , A.I.R. Gallery, NY (1993); Best Photography Annual, Photographer's Forum, US (1993). Awarded first prize in the 1st. National Photography Salon ICPNA, Lima, Peru (2006) and En Foco New Works Awards, New York, US (2002).
Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Pennsylvania; MALI Museum of Art Lima; Museo de Arte U. San Marcos, Lima; En Foco Print Collector’s Prog; Photographic Art Institute of Lima; ICPNA Peruvian Northamerican Cultural Institute, Lima, Peru; Gorman Museum UC Davies; Bellarmine University; the Joaquim Paiva Collection at the Modern Art Museum of Rio; Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs collection and the Violy McCausland Collection among others.
Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad in solo exhibitions at: Greenwich Arts Council, Conn.; the Garcilaso Cultural Center, Lima, Peru; Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru; Embassy of Peru, DC; Crossing Arts NY; The Cervantes Institute NY; Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru; Fotonoviembre Tenerife, Spain; UC Davis Gorman Museum; Museo Inka, Cusco, Sala Miro Quesada, Lima, Peru; Lucia de la Puente Gallery, Lima, Peru; ICPNA Lima, Peru, MALI Museum of Art Lima, Peru.
Her group exhibits include: L’Art Contemporai Péruvien, Fondation Taylor, Paris, France; 1st Biennial of Photography, Cusco, Peru; Les Chercheurs D´Or, Chateau de Saint Vincent-Auvent, France; Aleppo 8th International Women's Art Festival, Syria; Beyond Borders/Cruzando Fronteras, Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey, US ; Descubrimientos Photo España Madrid, Spain; Interstice U.of Miami CAS Gallery; Lehigh U., Pennsylvania, US; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, US; Enfoco New York Awards Quito Biennial of Photography; Saloon of Photography, Ecuador San Marcos U. Museum, Lima, Peru ; MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; IV Month of Photography, Sao Paulo, Brasil; I Biennial of Art, Lima, Peru, Foto septiembre Latinoamericano Mexico City, Mexico
WORKS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION
