Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe Yupari presents Wasipi – May Piraq Causa / En Casa, ¿Quién es el culpable?, a body of work that reexamines the concept of home as a site of both intimacy and conflict. Rooted in the visual language of Sarhua—a traditional artistic practice from the Peruvian Andes—the exhibition engages with contemporary questions حول family structures, identity and social dynamics.
The title, which can be translated as “At home, who is to blame?”, frames the exhibition as an inquiry into the narratives that shape domestic life. Rather than presenting the home as a unified or idealized space, Quispe Yupari exposes its tensions, silences and asymmetries, revealing how power, responsibility and memory are negotiated within it.
Working across painting, installation and elements derived from Sarhua boards, the artist reconfigures traditional forms as critical devices. These visual strategies allow her to bridge ancestral knowledge and contemporary artistic discourse, positioning her practice within a broader conversation on cultural continuity and transformation.
Quispe Yupari’s work functions as a form of resistance and memory-making. By revisiting Andean traditions through a contemporary lens, she challenges dominant narratives while affirming the relevance of Indigenous knowledge systems in current artistic production. Themes of gender, history and collective identity are embedded in her compositions, often articulated through figurative scenes that carry symbolic and narrative weight.
In Wasipi – May Piraq Causa, the domestic sphere becomes a charged environment—both personal and political—where inherited structures are questioned and reimagined. The exhibition underscores Violeta Quispe Yupari’s commitment to articulating complex social realities through a practice that is at once rooted, critical and formally expansive.
