Pia Cruzalegui (b. Peru) is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital media, installation and curatorial practices. Her work explores cultural hybridity, environmental transformation, and collective memory. Working across photography, moving image, and installation, she combines blue humanities research with elements of magical realism to examine how landscapes, myths, and communities evolve or disappear in a changing ecology and social conditions.
“La cultura es la única fuerza real que es de todos… y es solidaria.”
- Susana Baca
"And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences."
- Doris Salcedo
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
- Ai Weiwei