A project conceived specifically for the Gallery 6 from IVAM by Andrea Canepa (Lima, 1980) in which the artist proposes a colorful experiential and immersive installation that occupies both floors, connected by an intervention that crosses the staircase, in which he reflects on the perception of time. Visitors who enter the room will find geometric structures, modular parts, large volumes of colors and shapes reminiscent of meccano-type toys. The installation has been carried out using various materials, like screens, hilo, tiles, woods, earth and, even, cristal.
The lower floor recreates the universe of what is deep in things: as if it were a cave, an underworld or a maternal womb. “Everything is organized in layers: soil sediments are on the walls, There are sculptures that refer to the rings of the trees that surround the entire gallery space and the visitor can move between them”, Andrea Canepa has detailed this first floor with low lights that insist on the feeling of interiority..
On the upper floor, a metal line runs around the perimeter of the room like a horizon and is interrupted by sculptures that alter its course. The installation dialogues with the ceque system of the pre-Columbian Andean world. “It is a network of sacred lines that started from the center of the city towards the horizon, connecting huacas—sacred places—and drawing a correspondence between space and time. “Each huaca marked moments of the Inca calendar.”, the artist recalled.
