Jimena Lahura (Yanaca)

Jimena Lahura (Lima, 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist trained in Painting at PUCP in Peru. Her practice approaches digestion as a language of connection, resistance and transformation. Migration, grief and the metabolisation of catastrophe run through her negotiations between clays, pigments and incompatible material bodies that evoke geographies in conflict.

Colour takes on a structural, painterly and affective role within an expanded-painting research linked to landscape, sedimentation and economies of residue. Through the concept of the neo-past, she transforms memories and material histories into objects oriented towards the future. As the founder of Yanaca, she understands tableware and domestic objects as vessels of time: fossilised bodies capable of recording presence, use, intimacy and shared rituals.