Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Demarcaciones Inversas: Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico

January 31, 2025

Meridiano announces an exhibition of new work by Lima-born, Mexico City-based artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. 1980). In Demarcaciones Inversas (Reverse Demarcations), Garrido-Lecca explores the contrast between ancestral practices, such as weaving, and the forces of modern industrialization.

Each of Garrido-Lecca’s projects begins with intensive research into historical events and cultural narratives central to the identity of her native Peru. In this exhibition, she uses copper—an exploited material and one of Peru’s most valuable economic assets—to create a metaphor for the re-appropriation of national resources that addresses the tension between modernization and the preservation of cultural memory. In the gallery’s courtyard, Garrido-Lecca presents a freestanding cast-copper sculpture from her Transmutaciones series (2018–ongoing), inspired by the wooden structures that migrants have used to mark land on the outskirts of Lima since the 1950s. Inside, new wall-based works from the artist's Aleaciones con memoria de forma (Shape Memory Alloys) series (2013–ongoing) are realized from industrialized copper, transformed by Garrido-Lecca into artisanal handwoven textiles.

This exhibition is the fourth in Meridiano’s program, following installations by Joel Shapiro, Gabriel Chaile, and Kimsooja.

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Ximena Garrido-Lecca

In 2025, Ximena Garrido-Lecca will present solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, New York and The Renaissance Society, Chicago, and she will participate in the Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates; 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Santa Fe, USA; BOG25 International Art and City Biennale, Bogotá, Colombia; and XXIV Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala. She has exhibited at the Swiss Institute, New York (2024-25), CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel (2023), Portikus, Frankfurt (2022-23), Museo Madre, Naples (2021), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2020), Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2019-20), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2019), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2018), and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS), Mexico City (2017), among other venues. She lives and works in Mexico City.
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Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico

Meridiano

Founded in 2023 by Kasmin President Nicholas Olney and Boris Vervoordt, Director of Axel Vervoordt Co., Meridiano is situated on the Oaxacan coast in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. The gallery provides a platform for long-form, site-specific, and experimental exhibitions by artists working internationally and across disciplines.

The gallery is situated on a remote one kilometer stretch of the Oaxacan coast to the west of the port town and beaches of Puerto Escondido, where the space joins a community of other arts destinations in the immediate locale. The gallery space is aligned to the four cardinal directions: the Pacific Ocean to the south, the mountain range to the north, and the border between land and sea striking straight from due east to due west. The area’s manifestation of the elements — earth, wind, fire, water — has long influenced both local and international artists, and acts as a fertile locale in which to encourage artists to embrace the basic principles of materiality.

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