Biography
STATEMENT:
MOHO is the name of the fungus that develops on decomposed organic matter, forming a white layer. It is also the name taken by the Collective formed by artists Lucia Reategui and Rossana Lopez-Guerra. Most importantly, it is the concept behind the artists’ joint project.
In previous works, Reategui and Lopez-Guerra addressed, in different ways, free associations, produced by the images of multiple objects at home - the familiar and the abominable gesture.
Visions those now intertwine looking for new disturbing developments.
MOHO COLLECTIVE works pieces that are both delicate and ornamental. Artwork that demonstrate how we make use of the aesthetic to conceal, omit, camouflage and look after what we refer to as ambiguous, unusual and threatening in our lives.
From the domestic universe, the artists use the exterior to discuss the intimate as menacing to our everyday realities. They make use of beauty to hide what is latent which, in the end, never disappears if not confronted.
BIO:
**Both artists received the Golden Medal award for excellence in their class at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna (Lima, Peru)**
Rossana Lopez-Guerra
Lopez-Guerra's sculptures, photo assemblages, videos and installations, pose a reflection upon the deconstruction and reconstruction of family and society, where the artist retraces the notion of home, family and dwelling.
Lucia Reategui
Reategui's drawings, sculptures, photographs, installations and performances focus on unearthing the sinister, the concealed and the latent established in the ritualistic household chores performed by women.
