Cecilia Paredes Art
Peruvian, b. 1950
Multidisciplinary artist in essence, Cecilia Paredes uses her body as a performative vessel merging painting, sculpture and photography. While she initially appears as the main subject in each of her “photo performance”, her work explores a wide range of themes such as exile, integration, connection to nature, as well as biocentrism. Playing an active role in the narration, the background of her compositions is often made of patterns borrowed from tapestry or wallpapers filling the entire frame including her body. Her identity, hence camouflaged in the backdrop, is distilled to a quintessentially feminine shape inviting the viewer to ponder the ways in which individuals are informed by their natural and cultural environments. Additionally, the omnipresence of vegetal or animal design depicts an ideal world where humanity blends in rather than dominates.
Born and raised in Peru, Paredes’ political activism as a student in Lima in the 1970s forced her to leave the country. She has lived in Mexico and Costa Rica, and is now sharing her time between Philadelphia and Lima. Her nomadic lifestyle pieces together the motive for her need of addressing the process of constant relocation and displacement. Indeed, Paredes defines her life outside of Peru as a form of exile, a shearing away from family, culture and nature.
For the past 30 years, Cecilia Paredes has exhibited in the most renowned museums, from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, to the Lowe Museum in Miami, USA, via the Royal Museum of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Her “photo performances'' are now part of countless private, corporate and museum collections internationally. Additionally, as a conservationist she participates in seminars such as “Art changing attitudes towards the environment” which was organized by the United Nations in 2008.(Biography provided by Echo Fine Arts)
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Artist: Cecilia Paredes
Vuelo Azul (Blue Flight)
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
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2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clorinda
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Forest
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
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2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
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Archival Pigment
Alas y Espinas
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hermitage
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The River Within
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gardenia Dream
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
This piece is a reference to the Greek naiad Daphne. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo...
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2010s Performance Cecilia Paredes Art
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Archival Pigment
Zanzibar
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"I wrap, cover or paint my body with the same pattern as the backdrop and represent myself as a part of that landscape. With this act, I am building my own identity through the entou...
Category
2010s Performance Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vuelo Azul (Blue Flight)
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"The 2021 photo performance Blue Flight reflects the ways Paredes draws from numerous spheres including her autobiography, literature, mythology, and spirituality, to grapple with th...
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2010s Performance Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Daphne in Repose
By Cecilia Paredes
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
This piece is named after the eponymous Greek naiad. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo...
Category
2010s Performance Cecilia Paredes Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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