María Emilia Cunliffe
Bio
(Lima, Peru, 1971)
Studies: Eugenio Dittborn Workshop, Santiago de Chile (2006 – 2007); Creative Arts Center, Dallas – USA (2000 - 2002); Edith Sachs School of Art, Lima (1994 – 1997); Constantine Meunier Academy, Brussels, Belgium (1992-1993); New Land Workshop, Lima (1990-1992); Sculpture and Ceramics, Lima Art Museum (1988-1990).
Solo shows: Horizonte, LA GALERÍA, Lima (2022); Vulnerabilis, Fugaz, Lima (2017); S/T, Vertice Gallery, Lima (2010); S/T, Animal Gallery, Santiago de Chile (2009); 70% H2O, Art Gallery - Space, Santiago de Chile; 70% H2O, Forum Gallery, Lima (2005); Being-Human, ICPNA Gallery, Lima (2003); Object Man, Cecilia Gonzales Gallery, Lima (2000). Selection of recent group shows: Scope Fair, Miami Beach, USA (2021); Scope Fair, Miami Beach. USA (2019); Collective exhibition in Fugaz, Lima (2018); Odeón Fair, Bogotá - Colombia (2017); Cartagena Art Fair, Ik Projects, Cartagena - Colombia (2015).
Statement
… Taking the observer out of his passive state, attracting him towards contemplation or mere sensory experience, the colors, the positions of the characters and the crystalline element evoke immateriality. Despite their physical weight, the works are shown as ethereal and volatile spaces, there is also something of a return to the childish.
Those pieces of sea or water horizons appeal to a common place without pretensions that separate or filter glances; a kind of return to the primordial, an encounter with our origin. We come from the water and in it we can reflect ourselves, meet again, surrender or lose ourselves, I don't know what La Paz will be, but the horizon looks like it...
