Wynnie Mynerva Lima, b. 1992
Biography
Photo by Roberto Ruiz
Wynnie Mynerva was born in Villa El Salvador (Lima) in 1992. Mynerva graduated as a Bachelor of Arts with a specialty in painting from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes of Lima, and then studied Art History at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Their practice expands on the theory of gender, taking on the process of transitioning as a starting point to develop both a pictorial aesthetic and an alternative narrative to navigate the evolution of their body in accordance to a more authentic self.
As an artist, Mynerva is deeply conscious of the social transgressions their projects entail, it is a conscious almost instinctive drive to push boundaries and explore, and for that they returns constantly to their body. Their work transits and widens the limits of the flesh, the body and desire. Their don't paint mere fictions but bodily possibilities.
Their paintings are a vibrant extension of their body, an erotic and synthetic field of plastic exploration. Their pieces are both pictorial and performative. The pigment on fabric and plastic operates on the same level as the incisions their choose to make on their body: both are technologies aimed at disrupting the normative truth of sex and gender.
Exhibitions
News
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About "The Sweet Nectar of Your Blood"
Text by Augustín Pérez Rubio February 27, 2025Catalan version Spanish version Introduction On entering any exhibition by Wynnie Mynerva, there is always an interstitial space in our desire to move forward, a...Read more -
"I found a power in being the terror of the people"
Gabriela Wiener interviews Wynnie Mynerva February 27, 2025Catalan version Spanish version Oh no, Wynnie, not again. After devouring their own abortion, sewing their vagina, removing their Adam's rib and turning their hiv...Read more
