Macarena Rojas was born in 1985 in Lima, Peru. She studied Architecture at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and subsequently transferred to the Communications Department, where she graduated in 2009. In 2012 she did the General Studies in Photography Program at the International Center of Photography in New York and in 2017 she received her Masters in Fine Arts at The Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been exhibited in Black Box Projects Cromwell Place London (2022), Crisis Galería Lima (2019), Art Lima (2018), Museo AMANO Lima (2018), Camden Arts Center London (2017), Edinburgh College of Art (2016), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Lima (2016), ArtBo Bogotá (2016), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile (2014), Wu Galería (2014-2015), International Center of Photography New York (2012), Triskelion Arts New York (2013), amongst other public and privately held exhibitions. She lives and works in London.
About
Why Drawing?
I have always found the possibilities of paper and drawing are the ones I feel the most drawn to. There is something extremely raw, close and honest about our attempts on paper. Not only does paper’s materiality has infinite alternatives, but so does its scale and the malleability of its presence. I also like the idea of how humble and accessible paper is because it responds to the idea of how an artist is present everyday.
Most of my drawings come as a response to an architectural practice that never existed, fractions of imaginary modernist spaces and descriptive geometry explorations that are portrayed through lines. There is also a longing for my South American identity that can be seen in the use of weaving to construct the images, the use of language and the reference to the geometrical forms that resemble that of the region’s modernist and brutalist buildings.