This piece is made of hand folded bronze sheets on a base of llama fur. It is hollow so, even though it looks very heavy, it only weights about 12KG. It's US$ 18,000.
In her body of work, Ximena uses a wide range of materials and languages to allude to the social divisions between colonial and vernacular cultures through symbolic forms. In the center of her practice are the objects and architectures observed in different trips around Peru, where resources of each locality have been improvised to cover common needs. Recording and representing the use of these resources, she tracks the cycles of economic, environmental and aesthetic transformation as distillations of power and resistance around the changes in the use and sequestration of basic facilities. Although she works with local references, these recreations talk about global contemporary concerns about natural and public resources as well as private access for those who live on the margins. As such, the works are anthropological artifacts, monuments to the customs and communities, and celebrations of the ingenuity of the individuals facing the continuous modernization of the landscape.
