CECILIA COLLANTES (Lima, Perú) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Paris, working with painting, photography, and volumetric media. In her recent works, folded paper generates reliefs that define textured surfaces where charcoal and iridescent pigments respond to shifts of light and form. Watercolor and ink extend these surfaces through fluid movement across the folds. Framed in acrylic boxes, the pieces become contained reliquaries that preserve their fragility.
Collantes explores connections between nature, the cosmos, and the body through surfaces that suggest erosion, mineral traces, and structures beyond the individual. Her approach draws from pre-Hispanic Peruvian cosmology, where harmony between humans, nature, and the stars defines existence. Works such as 5 Angles, Gravitation I, Towers, Preservation, and Water Body reflect these ideas as abstract maps of invisible forces.
She extends this inquiry through photography, capturing landscapes, stone, and erosion processes that mirror her fascination with geological time and universal form.
Her experience across Lima, Berlin, and New York, and her engagement with ancestral cultures, shape a vision that seeks continuity beyond geography and time.
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Cecilia Collantes received her education in Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Contemporary Dance at Danza Viva School in Lima, and in Traditional Javanese Arts at the Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Surakarta, Indonesia, as a Darmasiswa Scholarship recipient.
She later expanded her practice through workshops at the University of the Arts Berlin with choreographer Constanza Macras and stage designer Muriel Gerstner, with Moises Saman (Magnum Agency) and Paul Moakley (Time Magazine) during Magnum Photos workshops in New York, as well as interdisciplinary visual theater and movement with Integro group in Lima.
Her painting and performance works have been shown in Lima, New York, Jakarta, Bangkok, and Berlin. Solo exhibitions include Liberty, Femina, Keluarga at Biasa Art Space (Jakarta), New Works at Chista Studio (New York), Foresta at Undercurrent Projects (New York), and Apparel at Cecilia Gonzalez Gallery (Lima). She has also participated in group exhibitions, most recently Sujeto a Cambios at La Editorial (Lima, 2025). Collantes has been supported by international residencies and grants, including the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Residency (New Jersey, 2014–15), Thaillywood Residency (Thailand, 2013), Darmasiswa Grant (Indonesia, 2012).