Marcia Tello
Marcia Tello (2000° Huánuco) is a visual artist based in Lima.
Marcia’s work understands nature as a complex universe of concepts, which makes it a powerful vessel for ideology. Through the aesthetic and ideological analysis of the landscape genre, her work argues that nature is a fundamentally discursive tool that has inherited a colonial system of thought and classification that has forever shaped and transformed the South American territories. Marcia’s work points out that colonial exploitation of natural resources is a direct consequence of the ideals of the European age of Enlightenment, which presented nature as a paradise for economic growth and aesthetic consumption. Her work appropriates 19th-century and popular digitised imagery to surface an inherent friction between the ideals of nature as a land for perpetual development and the popular ruins of progress in the global south.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Gloss paint on plastic, mounted on scaffolding, 3 x 5.80 m. La rebelión de los objetos, Proyecto Amil
Sublimación sobre tela, 100 x 66cm. Galería del paseo
Sublimation on fabric, 100 x 66cm. Galería del paseo
BIO
Marcia Tello graduated with a BA in arts specialised in painting from the Arts Faculty at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima, PE) in 2023. She had her first solo show Mirador, dispositivos de contemplación (Viewpoint, contemplation devices) at Wu Gallery (Lima, PE) in 2023 and has participated in numerous group shows, including “La rebelión de los objetos” at Proyecto AMIL (Lima, PE) in 2023, “Tres canteras 2023, Jóvenes Valores” at Galería Forum (Lima, PE) in 2022, and “Memoria del color” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima (Lima, PE) in 2022. She has participated in Proyecto AMIL’s residency programme “Haciendo Contexto VI” in 2023 and is 2024’s recipient of the ICPNA Artus Wiels Scholarship. She will be WIELS (Brussels, BE) resident from August to December 2024.
Marcia will be starting her MFA studies at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN), FHNW Academy of Art and Design (Basel, CH) in late 2024.
The residency of Marcia Tello is supported by Artus & ICPNA.