2010-2013
Through photographs of architectural structures, I reference certain ideals and expectations of progress and well-being in Peru from the 1940s to the late 1960s. I present these structures interacting with the current urban context, marked within a city that no longer converses with them in the same way.
Today, we pass by these structures, and many of us don’t realize they are monuments to a revolution. This revolution, through architecture and a belief in progress, along with science and technology, aimed to change how we live and even altered our relationship and movement through space. For many, it goes unnoticed that the world we inhabit would not be the same without these “machines for living,” where the revolution is confined to space, ultimately changing how we live.
Lima has changed over time and continues to do so. It no longer believes in the same things. These structures stand before the city as great monuments that fight against the passage of time and remind the city of a promise of modernity and progress. They are facades that show that, inside, only the memory of that promise remains.