Contexts and interculturalities. A conceptual journey through contemporary peruvian art

Abstract

Intertextuality in contemporary Peruvian art is a constant whose value goes beyond the use of a mechanism of appropriation and re-signification of cultural references. The networks established between the sacred  and the profane, the past and the present, the local and the global, for instance, generate often discourses controversial and transgressive around the cultural identity of the artist and the culture that he or she represents. It also raises questions about the status of art in the current context and its epistemological approach. In Peru, there are several artists who develop intertextualities that attempt to include the spectators in scenarios and interactions whose speeches appeal to their memory to undermine their stereotypes and reconstruct nuclear representations for the configuration of identity. Analyzing the frequency and implications of this phenomenon articulates art to history and relates it to the creation of knowledge and languages. There are consequences in the perception of reality and its future: art develops a critical vocation from the everyday, seizing signs to suggest an active co-enunciation, supplied by the contents and icons of the collective memory of the community.