Cerco

The exhibition by Armando Andrade Tudela unfolds as an immersive journey in which sculpture, video, and installation engage in dialogue around themes of identity, power, and historical memory. Upon entering, visitors encounter Cerco, a modular sculpture situated between art and design that cuts perpendicularly across the first gallery, dividing the space between the film La Verdad ha Cambiado and a series of two-dimensional works. These wall pieces combine “somatic diagrams”, made with chalk and pencil on wood and constructed through the layering of maps, anatomical profiles, musical instruments, and textual annotations, with silkscreen prints derived from film stills, transformed into silent, fragmented compositions.

La Verdad ha Cambiado, presented on an LED wall, forms the narrative core of the exhibition. The film consists of seven performative sequences interpreted by four actors and is created through a montage of archival images from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima and scenes of bodies subjected to states of crisis. The work reflects on pedagogy, ideology, and indoctrination within the context of Peru’s recent history, staging dynamics of submission and reassertion that remain deeply relevant today.

In the final gallery, Canto Hundido reworks the film set into a labyrinthine sculpture composed of three intersecting levels. A subwoofer broadcasts a sound composition based on an Andean funerary chant, transforming the work—and the entire gallery—into a resonant chamber. Taken as a whole, the project constructs an environment that vibrates between image, sound, and matter, making perceptible the political and cultural tensions that run through the artist’s practice.