Ximena Garrido-Lecca

Material histories examined through reinterpretation and reuse

Industrial processes, infrastructure and systems of transmission

Technology, labour and resource extraction reconsidered

Overview

Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. 1980, Lima, Peru) is an artist whose practice examines the relationships between technology, infrastructure, labour and resource extraction through material transformation and historical research.

Working across sculpture, installation and video, she draws upon industrial materials, craft traditions and systems of communication. Her practice examines the histories embedded within processes of production and exchange.

Garrido-Lecca has exhibited internationally, including presentations at the Venice Biennale; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC Lima); and institutions and galleries across Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Selected Works

Planta – Composición I

Ceramics, steel, copper, 192 × 160 x 160 cm, 2018

Woven copper wire, 162 x 101 cm, 2024

Bonsack rolling machine

Tobacco, ash, mixed medias, various dimensions, 2023