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Kasmin announces an exhibition of new work by Lima-born, Mexico City-based artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b..

The Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca is often known for her commitment to Peru's history and its ancient mythology, other than for her study of the.

Congratulations to Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Chonon Bensho and María José Murillo for their participation at the exhibition “Naming Natures”.

Kasmin announces an exhibition of new work by Lima-born, Mexico City-based artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca at the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP. THIS TOO, IS A MAP presents works, projects, and programs by artists.

Through her compelling sculptures and installations, Ximena Garrido-Lecca examines the fraught history of Peru, shaped largely by the uneasy entanglement of.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Reverse Engineering

The presence on the Neuchâtel littoral of a cigarette factory established in 1942 – the first to produce the famous cowboy brand outside the United States – led artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca to focus her exhibition at CAN on the relationship between humans and the tobacco plant, particularly with regard to its ritual use from the time of the Paleolithic shamanism of the native American peoples to nowadays.

For the exhibition Reverse Engineering, Ximena Garrido-Lecca based herself on the first cigarette rolling machine whose invention in 1881 revolutionized the tobacco industry.

She reproduced it exactly, piece by piece, from the patented plans. But instead of using the materials needed to make a functional model, she substituted them with a paste made of tobacco leaves and ashes, a ritual object with magical and purifying virtues called San Pedrito.

The reference to reverse engineering is to be considered not only in its proper sense: the