Delfina Nina

(Perú, 1990)

On her artwork

With her art Delfina Nina widens her subjectivity and the experiential totality that runs through her towards unusual meanings. In her pieces, the tearing leads to a rupture of genre and representational conventions and to the reencounter of visceral zones. Her works goes in search of tonalities and personal effects. Through the creative process, the artist enters solitary interstices, reconstructs the meaning of her presence with its fractures and mysteries and reinvents her particular, familiar, feminine, unrepeatable imaginary.

The plastic language becomes a means to unravel in profound images the upheavals of her being in its widest and most multiple sides. The visual approach leads to the construction of transparencies, resulting in the reflective and contemplative treatment of painting, in the potential of the image to discover unthinkable folds.

The oneiric becomes a way to embrace the heterogeneity of her identity and the world. Through the fantastic and surreal, her work penetrates into pulsating paths, enabling her to rediscover the emancipatory edges of her being, to embrace existence in its alterity and to incite temporalities that opens up to singularity and the abysmal.

Nature plays an essential role in her work, an element that identifies her and prolongs her in its wildest and deepest sides, or becomes a creature with a life of its own. The exercise of the poetic opens up the unknown, new horizons, living textures and landscapes.

Trajectory (summary)

She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Calca, UNDQT. Her work has been exhibited in several personal and collective exhibitions. Among the exhibitions in which she has participated are Nina/Amao at the Museo Andrés del Castillo in Lima, 2015. Also Comunión, an ephemeral mural executed with mixed media on concrete (500 cm x 380 cm) at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Cusco, 2018. In her career she has several solo exhibitions, among them Entre el Vacío y el Plástico Recuerdo, Sala de Arte Blanco y Negro de la Alianza Francesa del Cusco, 2013; Vaivén de las Emociones, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Cusco, 2014; Canto, Galería de Arte Enlace Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, 2018; AMA, held at Espacio Augusta, Peru, between 2023 and 2024.