“The Nuns and the Sea”: Sonia Cunliffe breaks stereotypes, providing a photographic exhibition that reveals the humanity and pleasure of life

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The exhibition “The Nuns and the Sea” presents a sequence of black and white prints captured by visible artist, author and photographer, Sonia Cunliffe. On a cool summer season morning south of Lima, Sonia unexpectedly got here throughout a gaggle of barefoot nuns on the seaside and, being a delicate photographer attentive to the world round her, determined to {photograph} them. The pictures present the nuns lively, having fun with the ocean with laughter, enjoyable and spontaneity, revealing a little-known aspect of spiritual life and welcoming the viewer to find their closeness to happiness in an uncommon context.

The author Fernando Ampuero, in his introductory textual content, says: “They, the nuns, who’re married to God, and the ocean, which lives along with Neptune, the promiscuous pagan god who governs all waters, are taking a look at one another; the ocean, spreads on the sand the froth of some agonizing little waves that drag themselves gently; and the nuns, trembling, hear the key name of one other thriller that seduces them. Is that this what occurs? Possibly. However at what second did they really feel the urgency (learn: the acute want) to take off their footwear and moist their ft within the sea?”

Ampuero provides: “Allow us to outline the scenario of the encounter as a sudden impulse, a pure pleasure, a tumult of feelings, or allow us to attribute it to the magic of the stopped second, or to the intentionally forgotten modesty of younger ladies who’ve devoted their lives to serving to others, whether or not in medical posts or clinics, or to sweetening the palate of sleepy outdated ladies or youngsters with tantrums. Look and assume. Sonia Cunliffe solely longs to share by way of her pictures, which compose a quick narrative right here, the easy and exquisite expertise of having fun with the moments that illuminate us.”

An exhibition that challenges stereotypes by displaying nuns having fun with moments of pleasure and freedom, removed from their common routine, being ladies and individuals who stay and luxuriate in. Not solely does it provide a brand new perspective on non secular life, but it surely additionally highlights the universality of enjoyment and the flexibility to attach with nature and the surroundings.

The opening will probably be on Wednesday, July 24, at 11:30 a.m. on the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Heart of the Ministry of International Affairs (Jr. Ucayali 391, Lima) and can function the participation of the group of spiritual sisters and founders of the restaurant L’Eau Vive Del Perú, who will open the exhibition with a musical presentation. The exhibition will probably be open till September 18. Hours are Tuesday by way of Friday, from 10 a.m. to eight p.m., and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 10 a.m. to six p.m. Admission is free.

Sonia Cunliffe

Lima Peru, 1966. Lives in Lima. Visible artist whose work has been largely associated to pictures, archival analysis, appropriation and valorization. She carried out her research in Visible Arts and Pictures on the Pan-American Faculty of Sao Paulo (Brazil), the place she was a pupil of the celebrated photographer Otto Stupakoff. As well as, she has studied Artwork Historical past on the Tomie Othake Institute (Sao Paulo) and Historical past of Pictures on the Museum of Trendy Artwork of Sao Paulo. Lately, she launched her first e book “A la izquierda, en el desvío” (On the left, on the detour) in September 2022. Along with her participation within the Lubumbashi Biennale within the “Toxicity” challenge, she has participated within the XIV version of the Havana Biennial with the piece La Encrucijada del hombre nuevo, una utopía visto en el tiempo (2022); with Todos los nombres (2022) on the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Heart; on the Cusco Independence Biennial, with the set up The Nice Riot (2021); Blind Spot (2021) in La Rebelde, on the Girls’s Pictures Biennial in Mantua, Italy (2020).

Amongst his most essential exhibitions are “Misplaced Paperwork: Youngsters of Chernobyl in Cuba” (Miami Artwork Basel Mana Up to date, 2016), “Surveillance and Punishment. Jail Pictures from the nineteenth Century” (Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery, ARCOMadrid Impartial Exhibition Circuit), “A Man and a Girl” (Blanca Soto Gallery, ARCOMadrid Impartial Exhibition Circuit), “Indelible Pictures, the Imaginary of Teodoro Bullón” (Pancho Fierro Municipal Gallery), “Mares of the Apocalypse, Argentines of Paris” (Proa 21 Basis, Argentina), “The Heroic Guerrilla Fighter” (SIART Worldwide Artwork Biennial, Bolivia), “Don’t Say Something About What You Noticed Final Evening” (Divincri del Callao Headquarters, Peru) and “Utopia and the Sea” (NOW Gallery, 2023).

He additionally participated as a speaker at Ok’ANCHAY, the II Worldwide Symposium on Analysis within the Arts (Diego Quispe Tito Nationwide College of Artwork in Cusco, 2023).