ABOUT
BIO
hijadelacoca* is a Peruvian visual artist working with textile processes, drawing, and archival research. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts with a specialization in Textile Conservation and Restoration.
Her practice explores the body as an unstable archive, focusing on medical imaging, diagnostic systems, and material translation. Through stitching, embroidery, and textile interventions, she develops sculptural and graphic works that question visibility, classification, and institutional forms of representation.
Her work has been exhibited in Peru and internationally, and she has participated in artistic residencies in Latin America and Europe. Alongside her individual practice, she occasionally develops collective and workshop-based projects as extensions of her research.
hijadelacoca* is a Peruvian visual artist working with textile processes, drawing, and archival research. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts with a specialization in Textile Conservation and Restoration.
Her practice explores the body as an unstable archive, focusing on medical imaging, diagnostic systems, and material translation. Through stitching, embroidery, and textile interventions, she develops sculptural and graphic works that question visibility, classification, and institutional forms of representation.
Her work has been exhibited in Peru and internationally, and she has participated in artistic residencies in Latin America and Europe. Alongside her individual practice, she occasionally develops collective and workshop-based projects as extensions of her research.
STATEMENT
I’m María Lucianna Aguilar (hijadelacoca*), a Peruvian artist. My practice moves between textile processes, drawing, and archival research, examining how bodies are read, classified, and made visible through institutional systems. I am particularly interested in medical imaging—MRIs, X-rays, and sonograms—as visual languages that claim objectivity while producing distance from lived experience.
I work with these images as unstable archives rather than transparent documents. Through stitching, layering, and repetition, I translate clinical imagery into tactile forms that interrupt diagnostic clarity and expose its limits. Textile becomes a method of interference: slow, accumulative, and prone to error.
Rather than approaching the body as a site of repair or resolution, my work focuses on what remains unreadable, excessive, or unresolved within systems of diagnosis and classification. I understand my practice as an open investigation that remains provisional and unresolved.
I’m María Lucianna Aguilar (hijadelacoca*), a Peruvian artist. My practice moves between textile processes, drawing, and archival research, examining how bodies are read, classified, and made visible through institutional systems. I am particularly interested in medical imaging—MRIs, X-rays, and sonograms—as visual languages that claim objectivity while producing distance from lived experience.
I work with these images as unstable archives rather than transparent documents. Through stitching, layering, and repetition, I translate clinical imagery into tactile forms that interrupt diagnostic clarity and expose its limits. Textile becomes a method of interference: slow, accumulative, and prone to error.
Rather than approaching the body as a site of repair or resolution, my work focuses on what remains unreadable, excessive, or unresolved within systems of diagnosis and classification. I understand my practice as an open investigation that remains provisional and unresolved.