Ivana de Vivanco, “Final Vibration”

Lithograph on paper 
42 x 59 cm
Edition of 10
2024

Minimum donation: 400 euros 
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Ivana de Vivanco is a Chilean-Peruvian artist who examines how discourses of power are reflected in and passed on by images. At once uncanny and humorous, and with a deliberately ‘acid’ color palette, her artworks distance themselves from the traditional solemnity of the historical to write alternative epics of the present, in which the heroes have fallen off their horses and the failure of the modernist project is revealed before our eyes. Starting from painting but in permanent dialog with literature, natural science, psychoanalysis, popular culture, theater and ritual practices – the artist questions our Western selective culture of memory and proposes different readings of the colonial, the female body and utopia as a form of historical and personal healing.

Made with a classic lithography technique in which illustrations are first drawn onto stone and then pressed onto paper, Final Vibration is the first work of a new series (that is still in the making). The series deals with the territories of the Atacama Desert: its natural richness and ancestral knowledge, but also the danger that extractivism and neoliberal logics represent in the region. The work is a supposition of three separate images, with the figure of the snake as a spokesperson and prophet of the catastrophe at the core of this body of work.