Maca Cerquera
Amnesia
What remains of us when we forget? And what remains of the past when we forget? Turning thread, clay, and line into fragile archives of memory not to preserve the past, but to let it change.
"Forgetting isn't the end of a story. It's how the story changes."
The Artist
Maca Cerquera
Embroidery · Drawing · Collage · Sculpture · Textile
Maca Cerquera (Lima, 1990) lives and works in Cusco, Peru. Trained as an architect in Buenos Aires, she studied art at Universidad Di Tella and Universidad Nacional de las Artes before discovering embroidery in São Paulo in 2014 — a technique now central to her practice.
Her work is rooted in collecting: memories, invented landscapes, affective fragments that through drawing, collage and hand embroidery become narratives across formats and media.
Venue Map
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Ask the Exhibition
An AI trained on interviews, texts, and materials shared by Maca Cerquera guides the visitor through the exhibition. It's not about talking to the artist, but exploring her work through an interactive catalogue built on her words and her story. You can ask about a work, a project, her creative process.
Parallel project
Innconsciente
Maca Cerquera
Writing on post-its · Variable dimensions · Ongoing since 2011
Innconsciente is a project Maca Cerquera has been developing since 2011: phrases written on coloured stickers and left in public spaces in Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago and several European cities, so that whoever found them could recognise them as their own.
The mechanism is that of the oracle — a jar full of phrases that you shake, open, and receive an answer to the question you had in mind. Not a prediction, but a resonance. In this exhibition the project becomes digital: you write a question and the Oracle responds with one of Maca's phrases.