ART AND CULTURE

EXHIBITIONS

Each exhibition is an opportunity to showcase the talent of artists and communities, celebrating the cultural richness that surrounds us, inviting reflection and connection with our environment.

ART AND CULTURE

EXHIBITIONS

Each exhibition is an opportunity to showcase the talent of artists and communities, celebrating the cultural richness that surrounds us, inviting reflection and connection with our environment.

EXECUTION

Since 2024

to date

Mater Team

Verónica Tabja

EXECUTION

Since 2024

to date

Mater Team

Verónica Tabja

Mother Exhibitions

In art exhibitions, Mater has found a new language to make visible the various layers of their work and their identity as a collaborative network. In these spaces, it is possible to bring together the knowledge, territories, stories, and ecosystems that they research to then reinterpret them through different projects, purposes, and people.

The exhibited pieces contain sensitive processes that evoke thought and emotion. With art, Mater extends their reach through the senses and the symbolic, creating new forms of connection and understanding. It is also a convergence point for disciplines, knowledge, and people, where creators and observers meet.

EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE WORLD.

EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE WORLD.

THREADS

Mater is an interdisciplinary network dedicated to articulating and communicating the profound cultural and biological diversity of Peru. It not only makes this richness visible but also makes it tangible, engaging the senses. Additionally, it functions as a conduit or connection. 

By uniting gastronomy, science, art, and humanities, Mater adopts a multifaceted approach to understanding and processing this diversity. The thread, symbol of continuity and connection, serves as a central metaphor in this exploration, intertwining landscapes, people, memories, ingredients, techniques, and stories. At its core lies the awareness of stories within stories, the layers of interconnections that shape our understanding of life and open new conversations.

In collaboration with artisans, artists, and researchers from various fields, Mater focuses on how ancestral knowledge not only endures but also generates new perspectives, acting as a bridge between past and present, tradition and innovation. Everyday tools, gestures, songs, or narratives that are often overlooked in their familiarity hold deep cultural significance, shaping both daily life and the broader social fabric of the communities with which we interact.

Materiality is a fundamental aspect of our exploration, offering multiple avenues for experimentation and expression, embracing change in a research practice that delves into the essence of materials, their seasonal fluctuations, symbolism, and vital processes they contain.

Temple

Beijing, China

April 2025

A reconfigured edition that includes more local and international artists and artisans, and presents new photographic, sound, and textile pieces that invite a review of the diversity of Peru from various forms of expression.

Luz Maritha Rodriguez, Gaia Anselmi, Elba Enrriquez, Dalia Rodriguez, Tania Brun, Mozhdeh Matin, Asociación Maras K´ampa, Colectivo Warmi, Andrea Tapia, Sergio Murga, Jorge Escompani, María Nishida, Nicola Ratti.

A reconfigured edition that brings together more local and international artists and artisans, and presents new photographic, sound, and textile pieces that invite a review of the diversity of Peru from various forms of expression.

Luz Maritha Rodriguez, Gaia Anselmi, Elba Enrriquez, Dalia Rodriguez, Tania Brun, Mozhdeh Matin, Asociación Maras K´ampa, Colectivo Warmi, Andrea Tapia, Sergio Murga, Jorge Escompani, María Nishida, Nicola Ratti.

Palazzo Madama

Turin, Italy

October 2024

Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos, Tania Brun, Elba Enrriquez, Maras K´ampa Association, Warmi Collective. Sergio Murga.

Great Egyptian Museum

Cairo, Egypt

May 2024

Elba Enrriquez, Tania Brun, Maras K'ampa Association, Warmi Collective, Sergio Murga.

Leeum Museum of Art

Seoul, South Korea

April 2024

Tania Brun, Maras K'ampa Association, Warmi Collective, Sergio Murga

threads of time

Mater is an interdisciplinary network dedicated to articulating and communicating the profound cultural and biological diversity of Peru. It not only makes this richness visible but also makes it tangible, engaging the senses. Additionally, it functions as a conduit or connection. 

By uniting gastronomy, science, art, and humanities, Mater adopts a multifaceted approach to understanding and processing this diversity. The thread, symbol of continuity and connection, serves as a central metaphor in this exploration, intertwining landscapes, people, memories, ingredients, techniques, and stories. At its core lies the awareness of stories within stories, the layers of interconnections that shape our understanding of life and open new conversations.

In collaboration with artisans, artists, and researchers from various fields, Mater focuses on how ancestral knowledge not only endures but also generates new perspectives, acting as a bridge between past and present, tradition and innovation. Everyday tools, gestures, songs, or narratives that are often overlooked in their familiarity hold deep cultural significance, shaping both daily life and the broader social fabric of the communities with which we interact.

Materiality is a fundamental aspect of our exploration, offering multiple avenues for experimentation and expression, embracing change in a research practice that delves into the essence of materials, their seasonal fluctuations, symbolism, and vital processes they contain.

The exhibition "Threads of time" celebrates the vitality and relevance of traditional knowledge in today's world, its capacity to reconfigure to endure, and its influence in the present. Starting from an interdisciplinary and dialogical approach, Mater collaborates with artisans, artists, and researchers on the various ways in which knowledge not only survives but also serves as a catalyst for new visions and perspectives, acting as a bridge that maintains conversations between the past and the present. The thread, a symbol of continuity and connection, becomes the central metaphor of the exhibition, intertwining eras, cultures, and territories.

In this context, the Pedro de Osma Museum contributes by integrating pieces from Tiahuanaco culture, as well as from the Inca and colonial periods, which, through its narrative, adds to the concept of the exhibition. The achieved conversation not only represents the continuity of cultural processes, customs, aesthetics, and associated functions but also demonstrates how this legacy remains alive and is in constant enrichment. Far from being static, it adapts and adopts other forms in response to different times and realities, maintaining an essential connection with its origin.

This invites us to reflect on the materialities that not only envelop and contain the intangible but also transmit it, taking on the narration of stories, identities, and practices that continue to weave a vast network of connections, where the temporal, the cultural, and the biological converge. In this dialogue between the human and the material, the dynamics of exchange that define the relationship between people, processes, and their environment are reflected. It is at this intersection where Mater dedicates itself to recording, revitalizing, reinterpreting, and spreading these symbolic links, which underlie the medicinal use of plants in the Andes, a textile woven on a loom during the dry season, a geometry traced with bark from Amazonian trees, or a quero made with present-day technologies, envisioning the future.

Pedro de Osma Museum

Lima, Peru

September 2024 / January 2025

Elba Enrriquez, Paula Cermeño, Justina Guevara Sinchiroca, Maria Paula Loveday, Luz Maritha Rodríguez, Tania Brun, Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos, Maras K´ampa Association, Warmi Collective, Sergio Murga, Assiel Nuñez, Arantza Valera.

Ecospheres

Mater joins this space curated by JCAF, to deepen and share our research.

Through these collaborations, we bring experiences that reflect co-creation, exploration, and the value of meaningful practices that connect diverse cultures and times.

Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

Johannesburg, South Africa

May 2024 / December 2024

Ecospheres presents an installation where Mater shares reflections arising from a deep immersion in the Andes and the Amazon of Peru, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF). Guided by the knowledge of local communities, we explore medicinal uses, intertwine natural fibers, and express symbolism in techniques that connect nature and cultural memory. This exhibition, curated by JCAF, invites us to discover how we co-create and inhabit our spaces alongside artists such as Isabella Celis, Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos, and the Bigo Project.

Ecospheres presents an installation where Mater shares reflections arising from a deep immersion in the Andes and the Amazon of Peru, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF). Guided by the knowledge of local communities, we explore medicinal uses, intertwine natural fibers, and express symbolism in techniques that connect nature and cultural memory. This exhibition, curated by JCAF, invites us to discover how we co-create and inhabit our spaces alongside artists such as Isabella Celis, Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos, and the Bigo Project.

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Transdisciplinary research center that studies, interprets, preserves, and disseminates knowledge of the Peruvian territory. Created by Malena Martínez, Virgilio Martínez, and Pía León.

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MATER

Transdisciplinary research center that studies, interprets, preserves, and disseminates knowledge of the Peruvian territory. Created by Malena Martínez, Virgilio Martínez, and Pía León.

CONTACT

Copyright © 2024 Mater