2009 “Politics of Display” (work in progress) was conceived as an itinerant project based on collaborative platforms. The project as a whole was curated by Augusto del Valle and began at the [e]Star space directed by Jorge Villacorta in Lima, 2009. It was made possible thanks to the support of Stansa, Instituto SISE, Corte Transversal, Movimiento por la Salud de La Oroya (MOSAO), TUPAC Asociación Cultural, Asociación Civil LABOR, Colectivo Biológico Karurickay, the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), the various artists who participated by authorizing the dissemination of their texts, and the participating public. In 2011, “Politics of Display” was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Arequipa.

Aiming to intervene in the Peruvian socio-cultural landscape, “Politics of Display” established a new process for developing and sharing non-commodity art through an economy of display. The exhibition became a set of diverse actions conceived as socially necessary—even urgent. The space was envisioned as a device to activate institutional critique through five installations: “Participación Ciudadana” (Citizen Participation), “Sobrevivencia” (Survival), “Ediciones inéditas” (Unpublished Editions), “Futuro Incierto” (Uncertain Future), and “Banco de Oro” (Bank of Gold). Each installation corresponded to a theme: citizen participation, ecology, education, health, and identity.

In this sense, the exhibition was not the end point proposing finished works, but rather the beginning—or a part—of the project’s process, a stage in the social journey of the work. Therefore, the will to reinforce the meaning that continuity gives to artistic action outside the space normally conceived as artistic (whether the gallery or public space) guided the entire project.

• Espacio cultural “[e]Star”, Lima 2009
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Arequipa 2011