The work of Javier Silva Meinel (Lima, Peru, 1949) has focused on investigating and making visible the hidden contemporaneities that cohabit the world “from the margins”, in the face of the hegemony of the Western canon. For the past four decades, the artist has been traveling and strengthening ties with native Peruvian communities, reflecting through photography the interstices between reality and fantasy, between present bodies and their ancestral beliefs.

This tension between the earthly and the spiritual manifests itself in a gaze that dignifies the subjects as archetypes of the ineffable beauty of a genuine and unbreakable humanity. To this end, Silva Meinel explores the myths and knowledge of not only connection, but complete belonging to nature. With square and black and white formats, she explores the sensitivity of the gaze and the depths of a deafening silence. His compositions refer to the physical and material of reality and that the exotic dissolves if a common starting point is allowed.

Javier Silva Meinel had his first solo exhibition in Lima, in 1978. Since then, his work has been shown in various galleries and museums around the world, both in solo and group exhibitions.

His photographs have been seen in the United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. His works also belong to important private collections, as well as to the permanent collections of institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA), the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA) and the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA).Spanish artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2017), specializing in painting, drawing and engraving. Among other studio collaborations, it is worth highlighting her participation as assistant to Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, China, 1957) in the project The Spirit of Painting (2017), carried out in the Salón de Reinos of the Prado Museum . She has received the UNED Plastic Arts Award (2021) and was a finalist at the Reina Sofía Award (2020).