Responding to the theme of 'Bedrock' Imayna Caceres (Peru / Austria) presents a new installation at this year's Liverpool Biennial. In an installation comprising objects created using clay from local beaches and riverbeds, drawings and moving image, Caceres explores the concept of ‘lifer’ (mud full of life), as one of the possible meanings behind the word ‘Liverpool’. The work invites visitors to think about the worlds that lay out of sight in the ground beneath us, and the natural beings whose lives and labour have contributed to forming the city.
Imayna Caceres is an artist, writer, researcher, who engages in their work, their experience with modes of being in the worlds they are related to in Peru and Austria, particularly growing up in urban areas of the desertic central coast, inheriting practices from the oriental tropical Andes, and daily interactions to beings and phenomena of the Nordbahnhofgelände in Vienna.
They are interested in the making of communities in more-than-human worlds and their work expands through collaboration with local ecosystems and in response to spiritual-political concerns.
Their research focuses on border thinking, autohistoria-theory, collectively organized political actions of the Latin American diaspora in Vienna, the teachings of plants and neighbouring entities, and the arts and other vital practices as forms of producing knowledge that exceed scientific discourse. They resonate to forms of living that sustain life, that question systems of accumulation, and aim for social justice.
Latest projects include: Vital knowledges (2023), The plant that is conscious in me (2022), Cosmic, Planetary, Communal (2022), Postcards for healers (2020), Underground Blossomings (2019).
Caceres is MA. in Fine Arts and MA. in Art Theory and Cultural Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as a graduate of Sociology from the PUCP University of Peru and of Communications Sciences from the University of Lima. They are a recipient of the Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for their ongoing PhD dissertation in philosophy. They are part of the feminist ecopolitical collective Antikolonialer Interventionen in Vienna.
Venue: 20 Jordan Street, Liverpool L1 0BP. Open: Weds-Sun 10am-6pm
More information: https://www.biennial.com/event/liverpool-biennial-2025-at-20-jordan-street/
