Miguel A.\u00a0L\u00f3pez (born 1983) is an artist, researcher, and writer. He studied Photography at the Center of Photography, Lima (2002\u22122005) and was scholarship holder of MACBA\u2019s Independent Study Program (PEI), Barcelona (2008\u20132009). In 2007\u00a0he worked at the Oficina de Artes Visuales as a curator for the main two public art galleries in Miraflores, Lima: Sala Luis Mir\u00f3 Quesada Garland and Sala Ra\u00fal Porras Barrenechea. He co-curated the exhibitions\u00a0Subversive Practices. Art under Conditions of Political Repression. 60s\u201380s\/South America\/Europe<\/i>, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2009 and Traf\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest, 2010; and\u00a0La Persistencia de lo Ef\u00edmero. Or\u00edgenes del no-objetualismo peruano: ambientaciones\/happenings\/arte conceptual (1965\u20131975)<\/i>, Spanish Cultural Center, Lima, 2007, among others. He is a regular contributor to\u00a0Ramona<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Artecontexto<\/i>\u00a0and has written for\u00a0Afterall<\/i>,\u00a0Papers d\u2019Art<\/i>, and\u00a0Papel Alpha<\/i>, among others. L\u00f3pez is co-author of\u00a0Post-Ilusiones. Nuevas visiones. Arte cr\u00edtico en Lima, 1980\u20132006<\/i>\u00a0(2007) and was an editor of the Peruvian contemporary art magazine\u00a0Pr\u00f3tesis<\/i>(2003\u20132005). Since 2007\u00a0he is a member of the editorial group of the art and politics magazine\u00a0des-bordes<\/i>\u00a0and of the group Red Conceptualismos del Sur. Previously he was a member of Espacio La Culpable, Lima (2006\u20132008). L\u00f3pez lives and works in Lima.<\/p>\n
During his residency at BAK, L\u00f3pez continues his ongoing research project into some critical artistic experiences in the 1980s in Peru, during the violent civil war between the clandestine left, the self-proclaimed Communist Party of Peru the \u201cShining Path,\u201d and the Peruvian state (1980\u20132000). It explores how aesthetics and visual culture act in response in that particular context, to create experimental and critical manifestations about the current political situation. During his stay in Utrecht L\u00f3pez focuses on the artistic work of German artist Helmut Psotta and the collective led by him, Grupo Chaclacayo, formed with Sergio Zevallos and Ra\u00fal Avellaneda in 1983. The group established themselves on the margins of the city of Lima, working through actions and performances that intertwined reflections on the Peruvian colonial legacy, authoritarianism, religion, violence, racism, legality, and sexual disobedience. Although the group\u2019s collective work was almost ignored in the local scene, their little-seen visual output became one of the most important references of political reflection and, for that same reason, one of the most repressed and publicly rejected. This research project by L\u00f3pez, initiated in 2008 (with Peruvian historian and researcher Emilio Tarazona), comprises the first major research on the collective work of Grupo Chaclacayo and its archive, located in Germany since 1988, when the group moved to Europe because of political repression. This research is also part of the ongoing work of the group Red Conceptualismos del Sur, which considers some antagonistic practices in Latin America during the period from the 1960s to the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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