RESEARCH



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[Ongoing Project]

Inscriptography ↓




→HTML FAMILY PORTRAITS
Digital Code · Genealogy · Inheritance
2026–ongoing

A series exploring the relationship between digital code, inheritance, and genealogy. Through embroidered HTML code that composes family portraits, the work proposes a parallel between source code and DNA as systems through which information, memory, and belonging are transmitted across generations.


→BANK NOTES
Currency · Nationhood · Translation
2026–ongoing

An ongoing investigation into Peruvian banknotes as systems of national inscription. The work examines currency as a bureaucratic technology through which states assign value, construct national identity, and materialize historical narratives, while incorporating processes of translation into Indigenous languages, particularly Aymara and Quechua.


→COUNTER MONUMENTS
Forensic Archives · State Violence · Collective Memory
2025–ongoing

A body of work that engages the counter-monument through the textile translation of forensic reports and autopsy records. Rather than monumentalizing loss, the works examine how bureaucratic documentation mediates political violence, shaping the ways in which bodies are recorded, archived, and collectively remembered.



→ TEJER LO QUE NO SE VE
Medical Imaging · Diagnostic Systems · Embodied Perception
2025–ongoing

An ongoing body of work that examines medical imaging and diagnostic systems through textile methodologies. By translating radiological and clinical images into embroidered surfaces, the work shifts these records from instruments of clinical observation toward spaces of material intimacy, inviting alternative ways of perceiving and relating to the body.


→NOMEN NESCIO
Memory · Identity · Alzheimer's Disease
2025–ongoing

An ongoing investigation into memory, identity, and disappearance through the experience of Alzheimer's disease. Drawing on archives, personal narratives, and systems of naming, the work asks what remains when the structures through which identity is sustained begin to fragment


→MUY PERSONAL
Medical Bureaucracy · Reproductive Violence · Testimony
2024

A textile artist's book addressing forced sterilizations and reproductive violence in Peru. Through the translation of medical records, testimonies, and bureaucratic documents into textile form, the work examines how institutional records classify, regulate, and inscribe bodies.

→TRENSSSA
Migration · Territory · Belonging
2024

A body of work reflecting on migration, displacement, and belonging through textile processes. It considers the material and emotional traces left by movement across territories, approaching migration as both a geographical condition and a lived experience.

→NINFAS MRKH
Medicine · Diagnosis · Bodily Identity
2016–2017

Developed from the experience of MRKH syndrome, this early body of work examines the intersections of medicine, gender, and bodily identity. It questions how medical discourse constructs narratives around the female body while shaping experiences of diagnosis, absence, and self-perception.