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hijadelacoca https://hijadelacoca.com hijadelacoca Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:14:07 +0000 https://hijadelacoca.com en unkuna http://hijadelacoca.com/unkuna Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:14:07 +0000 hijadelacoca 460062 UNKUNATerritory · Ancestral Knowledge · Political Memory 1985–2026 Embroidered over a handwoven vicuña textile woven by the artist's grandmother, an Aymara weaver from Puno, this work reflects on Peru's political divisions and the persistence of colonial narratives. Through the intervention of an inherited textile, the project considers territory not only as geography but as a material archive of memory, language, and Indigenous continuity. <img width="1080" height="808" width_o="1080" height_o="808" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/666de2fafa6d5b2bcb4b582bf45d08f461fd5676cf096e904864100cb1c9afcf/unkuna-hijadelacoca.png" data-mid="1443540" border="0" /> Embroidery on a Vicuña Unkuña (Grandmother's heritage) 50 × 50 cm Puno,1985–2026. Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     UNKUNATerritory · Ancestral Knowledge · Political Memory 1985–2026 Embroidered over a handwoven vicuña textile woven by the artist's grandmother, an Aymara... sixtieth session http://hijadelacoca.com/sixtieth-session Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:30:23 +0000 hijadelacoca 460061 SIXTIETH SESSIONA textile book translating the United Nations report Sixtieth Session into embroidered pages. By re-mediating legal evidence through textile processes, the project transforms institutional documentation into a tactile memorial reflecting on genocide, displacement, and historical memory. <img width="1920" height="1290" width_o="1920" height_o="1290" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/db57b9a8ce7a6a18c4ef05171ac12bf61cda818dcba5955838c8e326b4b72765/433-2-Photoroom.png" data-mid="1443537" border="0" /> <img width="4000" height="2686" width_o="4000" height_o="2686" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c751124341abf27e30be72b79632d96b9d1756ace99e96e7359f17a9238733d0/24.jpg" data-mid="1443539" border="0" /> Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     SIXTIETH SESSIONA textile book translating the United Nations report Sixtieth Session into embroidered pages. By re-mediating legal evidence through textile... onthename http://hijadelacoca.com/onthename Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:09:31 +0000 hijadelacoca 460042 HIJADELACOCA ON THE NAME I work under the name hijadelacoca, a name that condenses an Andean ritual genealogy. On my father's side, my family traces its roots to Huancané, in Peru's Altiplano. My great-grandfather belonged to a lineage of Aymara coca leaf readers, a longstanding practice through which coca leaves are consulted for guidance and spiritual orientation. This knowledge was later passed to my father alongside other Andean ritual practices, including mesadas, baños de florecimiento, and limpias, which understand healing as a relationship between body, territory, and collective energy. I continue to learn from this living tradition under my father's guidance, through family practice and the ritual celebrations of Huancané. By working under the name hijadelacoca, I acknowledge myself as an apprentice within this living tradition rather than its heir. The name reinscribes this genealogy into my artistic practice as an ongoing source of memory, translation, and cultural transmission. <img width="1045" height="1544" width_o="1045" height_o="1544" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/514749c0ed93f166c369c63ee74ab3f4049b79b1f423d98c80268904ceddcfef/AC11D9E3-13D8-4A00-B0C7-BB5052F2FDFC.jpeg" data-mid="1443531" border="0" data-scale="22"/> <img width="2430" height="3650" width_o="2430" height_o="3650" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/829cf3ebee49673041b8312f1dc1e9af040057081b2a0fd6752d715a8a5fb6e1/IMG_0865.jpeg" data-mid="1443532" border="0" data-scale="22"/>Huancané, Puno, Peru, August 1997.During the Octava de Santiago, with my father wearing the traditional Morenada costume. <img width="3858" height="2734" width_o="3858" height_o="2734" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/16e1318228147a4c9f40420494d0a7e82ffedf6fd01f1cd1008d184f3a97fe41/IMG_0863.jpeg" data-mid="1443533" border="0" data-scale="26"/> <img width="2396" height="1045" width_o="2396" height_o="1045" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f9349907a7d4364343e504274ae4b4b4842f0a4b5d9b007712ff4a063ee0ad1a/IMG_0870-Photoroom.png" data-mid="1443536" border="0" data-scale="42"/><img width="3752" height="2740" width_o="3752" height_o="2740" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5f1c5c1846b348af28a05df70864acc1ef5e6cc62d66c2caff8c43a95b47d4c1/IMG_0862.jpeg" data-mid="1443534" border="0" data-scale="25"/> Huancané, Puno, Peru. The Aguilar family gathered around memory, before preparing the unkuña for coca leaf reading.  Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     HIJADELACOCA ON THE NAME I work under the name hijadelacoca, a name that condenses an Andean ritual genealogy. On my father's side, my family traces its roots to... bank notes http://hijadelacoca.com/bank-notes Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:06:57 +0000 hijadelacoca 460037 BANK NOTES Currency · Nationhood · Translation2026–ongoingAn 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.Research in progress... Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     BANK NOTES Currency · Nationhood · Translation2026–ongoingAn ongoing investigation into Peruvian banknotes as systems of national inscription. The work examines... ninfas mrkh http://hijadelacoca.com/ninfas-mrkh Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:08:04 +0000 hijadelacoca 460036 NINFAS DE MRKH (Nymphs of MRKH) Medicine · Diagnosis · Bodily Identity2016–2017 Developed from research surrounding MRKH syndrome, MRKH Nymphs is a 28-page handmade textile artist's book created between 2016 and 2017. Drawing on testimonies gathered from women diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome—a condition characterized by the congenital absence of the uterus and vaginal canal—the work transforms intimate narratives into a collective material archive. Constructed entirely from discarded clothing and fabric fragments contributed by these women, alongside those of the artist's mother and sister, the book weaves together personal and familial histories across its pages. Bringing together the perspective of an art conservator and artist, the work preserves the material essence of these experiences, examining how medical discourse constructs narratives around the female body while probing the intersections of gender, absence, and bodily identity. In 2018, the project was presented for admission to the fine arts university, where the artist entered with honors and was awarded third place. <img width="1994" height="1384" width_o="1994" height_o="1384" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/aabe67e0ec184e30b2cfd28f1fc9411ef93b8c3b08708e3c16c86f6c87a06cdf/OLJKMPKM.png" data-mid="1442925" border="0" data-scale="97"/> <img width="1575" height="1041" width_o="1575" height_o="1041" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e02f4b879d93eee2a748751138b5c913d0a7f46fc99f483b7f4c9a80aeca4804/YH8H8IUI.png" data-mid="1442921" border="0" /> CLOSE UPS <img width="828" height="621" width_o="828" height_o="621" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/729f4380d47f8e0e4cc066258c79a3ea592504c4f64a9c19a8e97df6bd1c002d/226736015_358082035859810_5810620137306562784_n-2.jpg" data-mid="1442913" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="828" height="633" width_o="828" height_o="633" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5ffc2a825c5fdc02a61a7d7336c1601dee16285d29e0a1b58241c5b72cb1a8aa/229013225_2409036875906749_4522895945650887571_n-3.jpg" data-mid="1442914" border="0" data-scale="47"/><img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fb4995300a4524d131c69bd12869ac5c894ae511a4d2b16ca24307a8571f8d3b/anverso-1-14.png" data-mid="1442918" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9178c0393103b7f2e275adb6dc3aacccf811cb8f49c0921e229b8fe2818770e8/anverso-1-10.png" data-mid="1442920" border="0" data-scale="48"/> READ FULL TEXTILE BOOK EXHIBITIONS <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d92fb9bc8e5a9ffa372e8568b2ed6952b195cc0cd1140e5a9a04a56f064ad2a5/448736061_18269589277230836_5277385182523840906_n.jpg" data-mid="1442928" border="0" data-scale="31"/> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e4d2f20b1f0b35b03d7a010cea5c5a54d1441774d34eb7e9ca9a96110f4e9535/448756086_18269589331230836_71574071281636754_n.jpg" data-mid="1442929" border="0" data-scale="31"/> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/72ea218b9f5ec2ff4f1d94cecba0f7c2138c85cc696eff61689ef6894c4bf30d/448817146_18269589340230836_4750655859291796753_n.jpg" data-mid="1442932" border="0" data-scale="31"/><img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/727ff63c3438cec2d67e77e4a45bf3817f1eea2589979fc1085ad91d00a158ed/448753854_18269589292230836_3221521975625201332_n.jpg" data-mid="1442930" border="0" data-scale="31"/> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d0510393e33424a1f2113c62c8c88f0deaf3d6e3e6f64dcf603f6f19676067fd/448851887_18269589349230836_8307612104533420841_n.jpg" data-mid="1442931" border="0" data-scale="31"/> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ccef8f704a8bef25b2e97a90896af9229f43b472aa9d222cb717b86155491c61/448665137_18269589307230836_3516688571512078488_n.jpg" data-mid="1442933" border="0" data-scale="31"/>  "Entre el pre-texto y el post-texto: libros de artista", Arte Actual FLACSO, La Pradera E7 - 174 y Av. Diego de Almagro, Quito - Ecuador. Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     NINFAS DE MRKH (Nymphs of MRKH) Medicine · Diagnosis · Bodily Identity2016–2017 Developed from research surrounding MRKH syndrome, MRKH Nymphs is a 28-page... muy personal http://hijadelacoca.com/muy-personal Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:11:03 +0000 hijadelacoca 460035 MUY PERSONAL (Very Personal) Medical Bureaucracy · Reproductive Violence · Testimony2024 A 27-page handmade textile artist’s book that reconfigures archival testimonies from Peru’s forced sterilization campaign into a tactile system of reading. Entirely hand-embroidered and hand-bound, the work shifts bureaucratic and testimonial records into textile form, where stitching functions as both inscription and interruption. Rather than illustrating historical events, the book examines how institutional violence is materially produced, transmitted, and remembered. Each page slows the act of reading, inviting the viewer to navigate between document and object, archive and body, evidence and intimacy. Conceived as a sequential textile archive, Muy Personal proposes the artist’s book as a site where reproductive politics, material culture, and collective memory converge, questioning the mechanisms through which official histories are constructed, preserved, and contested. <img width="2683" height="1290" width_o="2683" height_o="1290" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4b2985ef94d86c385bb46d0149db5b1556bf3dc200dbe79776447b8ca48d725c/hijadelacoca07.jpg" data-mid="1442901" border="0" /><img width="15708" height="12100" width_o="15708" height_o="12100" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7d3c4581021f4ae8de7862825990f7cda96fb9b28a4da7fec093801a96f48e1f/hijadelacoca08.jpg" data-mid="1442900" border="0" data-scale="85"/> MUY PERSONAL Textil book (Textil Sculpture) 33 x 28 cm 2024CLOSE UPS <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/27f5fa8c4ba39126bdb3613e249fba7dfb5fbfa3a173fa78530a4ca21c654239/anverso-1-16.png" data-mid="1442904" border="0" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9e1cc47b5c24357e7282a731f1d66893009e572276254399b7d677f88c8ec23c/anverso-1-22.png" data-mid="1442903" border="0" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/29cb8c037cdcbd0b8fbf05195fe8fc96b3799592b704bcbad44599bcce85d79b/anverso-1-20.png" data-mid="1442905" border="0" /> SEE FULL TEXTILE BOOK EXHIBITIONS <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/12fdee627cb77e6f510a8811e4272fec09d6459d96f29ea278142c8f9755d034/469225049_18290850451230836_950989718153198090_n.jpg" data-mid="1442906" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1440" height="1439" width_o="1440" height_o="1439" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a024ffd591257d2829395ff045ef30c4413962cba96cb049c87844d223ea508e/469037741_18290850505230836_2803950834135613722_n.jpg" data-mid="1442907" border="0" data-scale="49"/>La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord (MSH Paris Nord), 20 Avenue George Sand,La Plaine Saint-Denis, France. Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     MUY PERSONAL (Very Personal) Medical Bureaucracy · Reproductive Violence · Testimony2024 A 27-page handmade textile artist’s book that reconfigures archival... tejer lo que no se ve http://hijadelacoca.com/tejer-lo-que-no-se-ve Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:03:27 +0000 hijadelacoca 460032 TEJER LO QUE NO SE VE (Weaving What Cannot Be Seen) Medical Imaging · Diagnostic Systems · Embodied Perception2025–ongoingAn 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. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7b44fc1b2a20be1ce896ce29721e8200ac0d1289e80907ec7d40a3f83ff5b076/1.png" data-mid="1442866" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/57c39a445850778d136a90f29cf82d5004b6b4edf6d7f91a597dfa264800ffdb/4.png" data-mid="1442867" border="0" data-scale="49"/><img width="1900" height="1652" width_o="1900" height_o="1652" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7887b83657e03edba3c59451cfe5b2db541063a765bfacf091b81f5893d6c4e2/Screenshot-2026-07-25-at-2.15.01PM.png" data-mid="1442872" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1981" height="1669" 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border="0" data-scale="31"/> Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     TEJER LO QUE NO SE VE (Weaving What Cannot Be Seen) Medical Imaging · Diagnostic Systems · Embodied Perception2025–ongoingAn ongoing body of work that... counter monuments http://hijadelacoca.com/counter-monuments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:40:37 +0000 hijadelacoca 460031 COUNTER MONUMENTSForensic Archives · State Violence · Collective Memory2025–ongoingA 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. SERIE: N. TO THE SOUTHThis Serie transforms forensic records from the 2023 state repression in Peru’s Andean South into large-scale textile pieces, shifting bureaucratic evidence into spaces of collective mourning, political visibility, and resistance against institutional erasure. <img width="1904" height="1881" width_o="1904" height_o="1881" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d2ed1f4de503ad7fb07d6d2cf07694c3983a80729d366e93efe3901a064a769e/Document-copy.png" data-mid="1442865" border="0" />SERIE: N. AL SUR [Ongoing] Embroidery 70X70CM 2025 Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     COUNTER MONUMENTSForensic Archives · State Violence · Collective Memory2025–ongoingA body of work that engages the counter-monument through the textile... html family portraits http://hijadelacoca.com/html-family-portraits Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:40:35 +0000 hijadelacoca 460030 HTML FAMILY PORTRAITS Digital Code · Genealogy · Inheritance2026–ongoingA 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. <img width="5707" height="3954" width_o="5707" height_o="3954" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ec1f16f1aefbcda8e180126b8406608b9b11279e2319299fa3497546c07b0a7d/IMG_0215.jpeg" data-mid="1442864" border="0" />MATRIARCHTextil Drawing40X60CM2026 Home  About  Research  Texts  CV  Contact     HTML FAMILY PORTRAITS Digital Code · Genealogy · Inheritance2026–ongoingA series exploring the relationship between digital code, inheritance, and genealogy.... Inscriptography http://hijadelacoca.com/Inscriptography Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:20:46 +0000 hijadelacoca 458868 [Ongoing Research] PROJECTS ↛ Home  About  Portfolio  CV  Events  Press  Papers    [Ongoing Research] PROJECTS ↛ Home  About  Portfolio  CV  Events  Press  Papers   