Bienal de Pontevedra

Violeta Quispe Yupari (1989, Lima, Peru) is an artist with Andean roots, whose work is aimed at denouncing gender-based violence and discrimination against women, especially indigenous women and the LGTBIQ+ community. Born in Lima, she comes from a family who emigrated from Sarhua (Ayacucho) due to the violence of the armed conflict in the 1980s. This experience had an impact on her life and so she left behind her cultural origins and the Quechua language. From 2018, inspired by the work of other female Peruvian artists, Violeta began to show in her paintings the lives of women in her community, using art as a tool for visibility and resistance. She focuses on the different forms of discrimination faced by women and LGTBIQ+ people in wartime, crisis and other forms of violence, in which they are particularly vulnerable. Physical, symbolic and psychological violence against these groups increases in conservative societies with strong traditional roles, which exclude them from decision-making spaces, thus perpetuating their marginalisation.