Josefina was born in Lima, Peru in 1995.
She received both her BA and MA in Fine Arts at the IAGN FHNW in Basel (CH), with the support of an educational scholarship she won in 2019.
Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, most recently as a finalist for the ICPNA Contemporary Art Award (PE), Aeropuerto Artfair 24’ (PE), and Kunsthaus Baselland (CH), among others. She has participated in various residencies worldwide, such as Haciendo Contexto at Proyecto Amil (PE), Paraply at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen (DK), and Bohemia Farm Studio in Vysoká (CZ). Currently, she founded and manages a space for the production, exhibition, and promotion of contemporary art in Lima, Peru: Ekumen.
In her practice, she research the relationship between space and architecture and their affective and ideological links. As an speculative exercise she create objects and forms that think the post-natural. She is interested in imagining fictitious and alternative places and constructions that invite us to think about the thin line between the organic, the artificial and our relationship with the other. With special emphasis on the urban, she seek to banish the human gaze - and its hierarchies - from the environment to start thinking about new configurations between forms, objects and materialities. All this as part of a process that is accompanied by writing, drawing, and filming habits and that can materialize in different ways in sculpture and installation.
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Email: jleonausejo@gmail.com
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