In this second series of paintings on Nasca culture, Gabriel Acevedo Velarde reflects on current politics within a context of spatial saturation. Since the dawn of the Internet age, the idea of networks that connect us has been celebrated. A recent example is the contemporary romanticization of fungal mycelium.

The artist proposes an alternative path. These are networks like those traps that activate when stepped on and ensnare the people around them in a hanging mass. Acevedo’s motivation is to show that pre-Columbian cultures can be revisited in ways that are alternative or complementary to claims of identity.

The net that traps, that does not resolve, that does not articulate, becomes a figuration of the state of contemporary Peruvian politics.