About the Artist
The body is deliberately confused with nature. We are all part of the same as Paredes
summons us to the skin of nature, to the actual skin of plants and animals in the process of
extinction pointing to the wild voracity of humankind as we move toward the road of less.
Paredes transforms herself into the animals.
Biography
Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in San Jose and Philadelphia, United States. Her recent photographic work is a conspicuous exploration of sensual surfaces in which the body is deliberately confused with nature and nature with the body. Paredes' photography demonstrates that the body of the woman – her own body – is a sacred zone, not profane, to restore its perception as something miraculous amidst the technological chaos that currently surrounds us. The body is revealed as a tool, a space for signs, and a creation that is intimately connected to our surrounding natural environments.
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