Aferrarse a los márgenes / Jimena Chávez Delion

Jimena Chávez Delion / Lima

Graduated with honors in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Fine Arts Department, she continued her education in visual arts with a masters program at l’ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels and in 2019 she completed her MFA In Situ of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In 2021 she was a laureate of the Friends of S.M.A.K. Prize (Ghent) and was awarded the Prince Claus Seed Awards 2022.

Her work explores the threshold between material culture, otherness, value concepts, and socio-spatial dynamics in the everyday. Her practice consists of delving into environments set by informal economies and analyzing how individuals’ stories, choreographic behaviors, and affective relations coexist with economic precariousness. Her work makes use of different media, such as sculpture, video, drawing, and installation.

Chavez Delion’s exhibitions include “ICPNA Prize 2022”, ICPNA – Lima 2022; “Friends of S.M.A.K. Prize 2021”, S.M.A.K. – Gent 2021;  “Otras divisas” (solo show), Crisis gallery – Lima 2021; “Metales o maneras” (solo show), Enrique Guerrero – Mexico City 2019; “Oasis Paraíso, Proyecto Amil – Lima 2020; “Thank you come again, In Situ – Antwerp 2019; “Lengua bárbara”, Casado Santapau – Madrid 2019; “Contraband”, Washington Project for the Arts – Washington DC 2018; “Premio Nacional de pintura”, Museo Central – Lima 2018; “ICPNA Prize, Icpna – Lima 2018; “Land(e)scape”, Designtransfer UDK – Berlin 2017; “Generación Y”, Y gallery – Lima 2017; ”Out of office”, Louise 186 – Brussels 2016; ”Como escapar de um armário”, Skrei Arts Division – Porto 2016; among others. Since 2021 her work is part of the S.M.A.K. Museum collection.