°born in 1988, lives and works in Ghent (Belgium)
Growing up in Lima and Santiago De Borja – a small village in the Amazon rainforest – Villavicencio moved to Belgium when she was 18 years old. More than a decade later, the clash or moreover, the reconciliation between these cultures, both from different parts of the world, is what defines the artist and her body of work. Animated stories about Inca ancestry, told by her grandfather, and lively memories from her childhood spent in the midst of the Peruvian Amazons, with its own customs and exotic nature, fed Villavicencio’s fascination for her birth country and its pre-Colombian culture. The impressions she feels when returning to visit her mother and the rest of her family are captured by means of analogue photographs, which often function as the foundations of her paintings.
