Blanca Varela: Annihilate the light or make it

On Friday, April 5, at 12 noon, the group exhibition will open ‘Annihilate the Light or Make It. Plastic reading around the poetics of Blanca Varela’, exhibition curated by Nani Cárdenas, at the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will bring together 23 outstanding artists who, through their works, dialogue with the diverse and profound themes addressed by Blanca Varela, one of the most important poets of Latin America.

Participating are Mariella Agois, Micaela Aljovín, Carolina Bazo, Alicia Benavides, Nani Cárdenas, Soledad Cisneros, Elisenda Estrems, Patricia Eyzaguirre, Johanna Hamann, Malaki, Julia Navarrete, Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos, Eliana Otta, Alberto Patiño, Enrique Polanco, Alessandra Risi, Herman Schwarz, Gihan Tubbeh, Erika Vásquez, Silvia Westphalen, Ricardo Wiesse H., Armando Williams and Bruno Zeppilli. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, ceramics and embroidery.

The art critic Carlo Trivelli points out: “We must celebrate an exhibition like ‘Annihilate the Light or Make It. Plastic reading around the poetics of Blanca Varela’, which brings us back to the dialogue between plastic work and poetry. Without burdening itself with the responsibility of offering a thesis or a unitary narrative, it is offered to us as a constellation of particular experiences, brought about differently by each individual work. Among them are woven the various strands of Blanca Varela’s poetry, ones that bring together both the imprint of the poet herself and that of her verses and poems, dispersed in the wind and in time.

In another of the rooms of the Cultural Center, the bibliographic exhibition will premiere in parallel Half-closed door. Blanca Varela 1926-2009 which includes first editions of her poetry collections, her typewriter, small objects that belonged to her, as well as photographs of the poet taken by Herman Schwarz and Baldomero Pestana.

Both exhibitions will be open to the public until May 22, at Jr. Ucayali 391, Lima. Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 8 pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays, from 10 am to 6 pm. Admission is free.

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