Romina Chuls: Placenta huerta (Garden placenta)
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ROMINA CHULS: PLACENTA HUERTA (GARDEN PLACENTA)
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Romina Chuls, Placenta Huerta (Garden Placenta), 2021, 8″ x 16″, cross-knit looping and ceramics on canvas
Placenta Huerta belongs to a series of projects that explore abortion as part of a collective reproductive cycle. The piece imagines the projection of fertility to the land through abortion. It embraces the concept of cuerpo/territorio (body/territory), which is a key theme of Latin American feminist movements. The primary medium is cross-knit looping, a knitting technique done with needles that appears on Nasca and Paracas funerary mantles, Peruvian pre-Hispanic cultures. Placenta Huerta confronts the resulting omissions from which colonialism and the patriarchy have constructed our history.
Value: $400
Romina Chuls (1991, Lima) is a researcher and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on postcolonial gender issues in Peru and Latin America, topics related to androcentric memory, gender violence, and sexual and reproductive practices. She holds an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2022). She also holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, with a major in painting, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (2016). In 2021 she was granted the AAUW International Fellowship to support her studies at NYU and her research on anti-colonial pregnancy interruption practices. Her solo shows include Parir los Pétalos (2023), an exhibition that articulates an understanding of abortion as part of a collective and more-than-human fertility cycle, at Real Art Ways, Hartford; Clandestinas (2020), a project that portrays the emotional stage of being pregnant with an unwanted being in a context where abortion is criminalized, at Galería Forum, Lima; and Tierra Incógnita (2017) at Fundación Euroidiomas, Lima. Her work has been shown in spaces such as Kunstraum (NYC, USA), at Palácio e Centro e Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimaraes, Portugal), at Museo de Sitio Julio C. Tello (Paracas, Peru) and Matamoros (Oaxaca, México).