Donna Huanca

The fusion of performance, painting and sculpture in the work of Donna Huanca destabilizes the male gaze and is linked to Andean ritual practice, responding to her interest in the body and skin in particular.

Her installations are characterized by being created for the spaces in which they are presented, so that for her exhibition at the Zapopan Art Museum, the artist creates an architecturally immersive environment, consisting of a wide artificial landscape framed by plastic walls and reflective that enclose metal totemic sculptures, together with a selection of oil paintings, essences and sounds. The “skin paintings”, panels that as a whole assume mural proportions, surround the stage with cobalt blue gestures that embody feminine power.

As viewers travel through space, they are invited to find and lose themselves in a kaleidoscope of layers of distortion that camouflage their own reflection and the works, evoking a slippage of space and time.

— MAZ

Image: Courtesy the artist and Travesía Cuatro