Portfolio
Chuto/ Oil on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2025
Maria Pichana/ Oil on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2025
Retrato Andino IV/ Oil on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2025
Retrato Andino III/ Oil on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2025
Máscara II/ Charcoal on Canvas/ 30 x 29/ 2025
Máscara I/ Charcoal on Canvas/ 30 x 31.5/ 2025
Exploring Tunantada through Music and Art (October, 2025)
This project grew out of our curiosity about Tunantada, a traditional music and dance festival from Jauja in Junín, Peru. Rather than trying to explain or define it, we approached it through our own lens and experiences as artists.
Musically, Víctor Sotomayor created original compositions that weave together elements of Tunantada music, Andean traditions more broadly, and the language of jazz. The result is not a reproduction, but a dialogue, an exploration of how these sounds meet, relate to one another, and create new possibilities.
Visually, Sofía Carrasco’s paintings focus on the musicians of the traditional orchestra, the different characters of the festival, and especially the masks of the Tunantada. She was drawn to the contrast between Andean faces and the exaggerated masks used in the celebration, and to what these layers of identity reveal about representation and expression.
What we want to share with the public is a way of getting a little closer to the spirit of Tunantada, but through our perspective. The music has taken inspiration from the paintings, and the paintings from the music, since we have been creating side by side during the past three months as part of our residency at Project 14C.
Together, these works are our way of engaging with a living cultural tradition, listening, observing, and creating something new in response.
Ñakary/ Oil on canvas/ 57 x 87.5/ 2025
Noches de Tunantada/ Oil on canvas/ 58 x 136.5/ 2025
Danza
Alma Escondida (April 2024)
The compositions Danza I and Danza II are complemented by a series of four charcoal drawings on canvas that seek to represent the connection of movement in dance with the spiritual search and the moment of trance in which the spiritual connection with oneself (Soul/God) is created.
The compositions ¿Dónde Está Mi Alma Escondida? (Where Is My Hidden Soul?)and Vida Pasajera (Temporary Life) are complemented by a series of four charcoal drawings on paper that seek to represent my vision, experience and what intrigues me about the Andean dance and music festival of the “tunantada”: the Andean population, the use of the mask, the excessive consumption of alcohol, the connection with nature, the ritual character of the festival, the feelings of melancholy and nostalgia
Danza/ Charcoal on canvas/ 61x172 in/2024
20 de enero/ Charcoal on paper/ 18x96 in/2024
Ampárame, ampárame/ Graphite on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2020
Contemplation (6 - 28 November 2020) by Sofía Carrasco & Marita Chavez
“To reach contemplation in this sense is something like perceiving that we see when we see, perceiving that we hear when we hear, perceiving that we think when we think, and perceiving that we exist when we perceive that we perceive and that we think.”
Contemplation is a state of being in which the human being practices mental silence and detachment from thoughts and sensations. It is practiced through attentive and sustained observation of the reality we perceive.
The situation we are going through has allowed us to reflect and meditate on our existence, our feelings and sensations—on what is essential and necessary in our lives, and what ultimately becomes irrelevant.
It has allowed us to appreciate moments and sensations that used to go unnoticed under other circumstances, to rediscover materials, formats, and techniques that had been abandoned, and to address intimate and personal themes necessary for discovering ourselves as artists.
Through contemplation, we have discovered the beauty and naturalness of the things that surround us. This allows us to be in harmony with our environment and to reflect, enabling us to be fully present—with our entire being—in everything we do and in every moment we live.
Te lo van a agradecer/ Graphite on paper/ 12 x 9/ 2020
Maternidad/ Graphite on paper/12 x 9/ 2020
Abrazo/ Graphite on paper/12 x 9/ 2020
Nostalgia/ Graphite on paper/12 x 9/ 2020
Regando/ Graphite on paper/12 x 9/ 2020
Sol de medianoche/ Oil on MDF/ 13.8 x 13.8/ 2019
Nubes/ Graphite on paper/ 13.8 x 35.4/ 2019
Ambivalent (June 2019) by Sofía Carrasco
For the artist, the central theme of this exhibition is the representation of the female nude body—headless and armless, stylized to the point of becoming a new being that demands its own universe. However, the work may also be interpreted in different and even opposing ways. Some viewers may perceive the figures as representations of the female form—sensual and inoffensive—while others may find a clearly phallic, erotic, and coarse representation.
The title of the exhibition lies precisely in the range of emotions and interpretations that a single work can provoke.
“Every nude has and will always have an ambivalent meaning, an equivocal emotion: if on the one hand it elevates us to the pure heights of mere physical beauty and toward an understanding of moral and spiritual beauty, on the other it can hardly lose its excessively human ballast of irrational attraction, lust, and vain exhibition.”
—Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, Dictionary of Symbols
Va llegando la oscuridad/ Oil on MDF/ 13.8 x 13.8/ 2019
Entre las veintitrés y la una/ Oil on MDF/ 13.8 x 13.8/ 2019
Un día eterno/ Graphite on paper/ 13.8 x 35.4/ 2019
