2013
Digital Photography
The headquarters of the Casa de la Cultura [House of Culture], the name adopted by the photographic series, in the district of Chorrillos, is a clear analogy of the way public and free spaces related to culture and education are maintained in Lima.
Through images of the library, the meeting room, and the study hall, one can observe the lack of didactic material and the necessary adaptations for the pedagogical and cultural purposes that the space should provide for its users. The sections of what was once a seaside manor reveal, in their solitude, the institutional shortcomings.
The overlap of antique furniture, decontextualized portraits, cultural heritage pieces, unused books, and displaced objects highlights a tension between what was once considered valuable and what now exists by mere inertia, between intention and failed purpose. The photographic and cultural apparatuses sustain one another within the timelessness of a suspended and unsustainable memory.