Nancy La Rosa

The URL of this website Datos Insuficientes or Insufficient Data is the name of my first solo exhibition.

I am a Peruvian visual artist based in Brussels who works with installation, video, drawing and printmaking. My artwork poetically deconstructs the ways in which power operates through systems of representation. By exploring the colonial legacies embedded in historical archives, I challenge the Western appropriation of local narratives by creating counter-narratives using images and sounds. Focusing on extractive capitalism and its impact on the land, I trace the life of extracted matter, such as minerals, stones, and plants. I observe their flow and seek to understand their hidden vitality and agency as active forces shaping meanings and reciprocal relationships among humans, non-humans, and the land. 

I have participated in residencies at Wiels and The Green Corridor in Brussels, Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Arte Actual FLACSO in Quito, and the Latin American Roaming Art Project in Singapore and Peru. I have also collaborated on site-specific projects in Madre de Dios, Peru, with Hawapi.org, and in Beni, Bolivia, with Kiosko Gallery. I hold an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Ghent’s KASK & Conservatorium (Belgium). I also hold a BA in Fine Arts with a focus on printing from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Anthropology from the same institution.

My work has been featured in exhibitions at venues including the Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Americas Society (New York), Biennial das Amazonias (Belém do Pará), MAMM – Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Qorikancha Museum (Cusco), Matadero (Madrid), Visual Arts Center (Austin), Salon(inter)Nacional de Artistas (Medellin), MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, University of Essex (UK), MALI – Museum of Art Lima, and MUCEN – Museum of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. Additionally, my work belongs to the permanent collections of the The House of European History Museum (Belgium), Diezy7 Barcelona (Spain), MUCEN Museum of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, and MALI Museum of Art of Lima, Peru.