Wynnie Mynerva Lima, b. 1992
Overview
Wynnie Mynerva was born in Villa El Salvador (Lima) in 1992. They live and works in Lima. Mynerva graduated as a Bachelor of Arts with a specialty in painting from the National Academy of Beaux Arts of Lima, after studying art history at San Marcos National Major University.
Biography
"They see my work as the echo of a furious collectivity that refuses to accept patriarchal fantasies and heterosexual paradises shaped by the standard"
- Wynnie Mynerva
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. They 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 they choose to make on their body: both are technologies aimed at disrupting the normative truth of sex and gender.