The exhibition will be on view from May 6 to June 11

Cecilia Paredes, Peru Blue Landscape, 2007 Photo performance with body paint Lambda print mounted on aluminum

This exhibit is the sixth in the series “In the Eyes of a Woman” dedicated to women photographers who focus their artistic work on women and children. Born in Peru, Cecilia Paredes is the first Latin American female photographer of that series. Her photographs also inaugurate the cycle of photographs included in the 2009–2011 “About Change” Program devoted to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cecilia Paredes, Peru Bed of Roses, 2010 Photo performance with body paint Lambda print mounted on aluminum

In Close Enough we present a series of photographs, which the artist herself calls “photo-performances,” in which, by wrapping herself in cloths or painting her skin, the artist places her body at the disposal of an environment that absorbs her in.

 This exhibition takes us close enough to an artist who merges with her environment, thus creating a metaphor. It takes us close enough to Cecilia Paredes, an artist hereby inviting us to photography in which she is present, as photographer and subject, together with nature and the objects she finds in it, and in which she finds herself.

The artist at the exhibition opening.

Biography Born in Lima, Peru. Cecilia Paredes currently lives and works between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and San Jose, Costa Rica. She has been living out of her country of origin for more than 25 years. For this reason, migration, or relocation, is a theme that Cecilia addresses repeatedly in her work. Throughout her art career, she has focused on topics such as the links between human beings and nature, and on a more intimate level, on the relationship between mankind and its surroundings and such as relocation, migration, and adaptation. Cecilia Paredes explores various artistic disciplines to produce her work. Apart from drawing, she does performances that are registered in photography or what she calls photo performances. In doing so, Cecilia uses body painting, make up or any other resource to complete her images employing the anthropomorphic gesture of using her body to “transform” herself into animals, plants or her surroundings.

The World Bank
Main Complex Atrium
1818 H Street N.W.
Washington D.C., 20433

For more information, please contact Art Program at artprogram@worldbank.org or 202-458-0333

External guests must RSVP to artprogram@worldbank.org or 202-458-0333 two days prior to their planned visit.

Visitors to the Bank must use the eastern entrance to the building on 18th Street located at 700 18th Street NW. Picture identification and a copy of the invitation must be presented to receive a visitor’s badge.