teresa bracamonte

b. Lima, Peru, 1989. 

Bracamonte is a Peruvian artist based in Paris. Through photography Teresa seeks different ways to give visibility to marginalised groups. She merges stereotypes such as beauty and grotesque in one, transforming both into one image beyond categories or social constructions. Teresa explores contradictions and dualities pushing boundaries, preconceptions and prejudices while proposing alternatives and provoking the spectator.
Teresa has a deep interest in the ephemeral, the changes and transformations that she can capture on an image of a landscape such as in her series La eternidad es un instante (Eternity is only an instant) in which she depicts architecture and sites that have been crucial in history and today have been abandoned, occupied, transformed or have become ruins of time.

Bracamonte studied Fine Arts in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru and Escuela Corriente Alterna. She specialised in Photography at Centro de la Imagen with honors and currently is studying a postgraduate at Université Paris 8. Her work was part of the II Biennial of Photography in Lima Lima Intrarrosa curated by Jorge Villacorta and has also been showcased in Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma; El Museo de la Nación; El Centro Cultural Inka Garcilazo; Galería de la Alianza Francesa, Fundación Euroidiomas, Centro Cultural de la Universidad de Lima, among others.