Issue # 21 Natalia Iguiñiz

Dejo Este Cuerpo Aquí I (I Leave This Body Here I) 115 Photographs (online archive) Inkjet Print on Bulky paper 10 x 13 cm, 2020

Dejo Este Cuerpo Aquí (I Leave This Body Here) is an intervention in the public space and a three-part exhibition. The first one Dejo Este Cuerpo Aquí I comes from an online photographic archive and portrays various uses of cardboard material in protests registered and held on several countries, these signs ask for help or shelter. The second one Dejo Este Cuerpo Aquí II is an installation with cardboard pieces that were placed in several locations, in the city of Lima; used cardboards were collected and recycled from family consumption or from warehouses and streets, then they were screen-printed with three parts of a woman's body and accompanied by phrases taken from Audre Lorde's Cancer Diaries. Finally, the last body of work Dejo Este Cuerpo Aquí III is comprised of photographs that record something of the life of the fragments from the interventions on the streets.

The work addresses precariousness, hopelessness, lack of options, fatigue, impotence, exhausting all resources and ultimately leaving evidence that we resisted. This kind of "last hope" sabotages itself by placing messages on poor access and low visibility areas. The material (cardboard) is perishable and the texts are not clear.

In cities, cartons are available to everyone, they are part of our daily packaging. They carry, bring and are garbage, like our bodies when we get sick, when we become impoverished, when we are discarded, raped, sterilized, mutilated, burned, and yet; the cardboard pieces are there to keep us warm and carry our most desperate messages and our anger.

Natalia Iguiñiz

Un Cuerpo Ahí / A Body There

Whose body is it lying in the middle of the street?

Whose leg is that which I see when crossing the track?

Whose expressionless face is it?

What prevents her from opening her eyes and looking at me?

Is it fatigue,

pain,

impotence,

trauma,

violence,

hopelessness?

The anonymous woman,

Does she suffer in silence?

Does she rest quietly?

Does she regain her strength?

Does she remember her sorrows?

Does she sleep or dream?

Has she forgotten how to move?

Can’t she decide to stand up?

Does she expect to be awakened?

Doesn't she feel her parts?

Does she feel them intensely?

Is she trying to recover?

From extreme exercise?

From indescribable pleasure?

From a relentless disease?

From daily abuse?

From a rape, a blow, a scream?

From feeling exploited, attacked, threatened?

Or quietly thinks?

Imagines, thinks?

Does she draw on her mind?

A plan, a route?

An escape, a shell?

Recreates a caress?

Does she evoke tenderness?

Does she reconcile herself in silence?

With herself, with others?

Does she hear her heartbeat?

Does she feel her breathing?

Does she merge with the world?

Dissolved into the air?

Floating in the sea?

Does she foresee an end?

Maybe some beginning?

Does she survive in your gaze?

Will she get up tomorrow?

Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio (Lima,1973)

Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio (Lima, 1973) Is a visual artist and university professor. She studied painting at the PUCP (1990-95), and holds a Master's Degree in Gender, Sexuality and Public Policies at the UNMSM (2005-07). Her work explores the the cultural construct on the feminine identity, sexuality, illness, domestic work and motherhood. She also works on memory policies, human rights and has been part of the Curatorial Team for the permanent exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Peru.

Her work moves between exhibiting on art spaces and institutions, interventions in the public sphere and as a feminist activist. She occasionally works in graphic design, writing and curating. Her work has been exhibited on 17 solo exhibitions and she has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in different countries among which are: Octava Bienal de pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador (2004); “Vía Satélite, Panorama on Contemporary Peruvian Photography and video” Centro Cultural Español, Lima, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo (2004), "Neón Colonial". Sala Luís Miro Quesada Garland, Lima (2004); Fourth International Biennial SIART, Bolivia (2005); Neuf femmes graphistes, Mois du graphisme D´Echirolles, France (2006); Trienal de Chile, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Chile (2009); “Changing the Focus”, Museum of Latin American Art, California (2010); Mutual Dependencies: Household Employees and Citizen Crisis. Traveling exhibition through the cities of Ourense, Bilbao, Vitoria, Donostia, Zaragoza (2011); Beyond re / Production, Mothering, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (2011); “In-Out-House. Gender Circuits and Violence In The Technological Age”, Valencia: Universitat politècnica de València, (2012); “Fête Du Graphisme, Cite de la mode et du design, Paris (2013); “Urgent action” Fundación PROA. Buenos Aires (2014); “Energías sociales / Fuerzas vitales” anthologic exhibition, Sala Germán Kruger Espantoso. ICPNA Miraflores. Lima (2018);"Graphic Party" Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, (2019); "Gesture and language" Espacio El Dorado, Bogota (2019); Mundo Latinx Fashion Space Gallery, London (2019); “Enunciate, denounce, sororizar” Jorge Martínez Art Laboratory, Guadalajara (2019); “Bienal 12. Porto Alegre - Visuality, Actions and Affects” organized by the Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul (2020).

Her work is part of numerous permanent collections both private and public including: Centro Cultural de San Marcos, El Museo de Arte de Lima, Museum of Latin American Art, Mario Testino Collection, Micromuseo: Al fondo hay Sitio, El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, among others.

She is Antonia and Vicente´s Mama.

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