Josefina holds a master's degree from the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) in Basel, and works as an educator and visual artist whose practice investigates architectures of crisis -fallen educational institutions, abandoned or half-built buildings, post-extractive territories- and the post-natural landscapes that emerge from these conditions: landscapes where geological and industrial processes can no longer be told apart, such as the mountains of the Peruvian Andes that are now magenta, the result of decades of mining extraction. She is interested in how these places can function as starting points for social reconstruction or reactivation from what we consider "dead," "failed," or "sterile." She understands these spaces as active environments where the artificial and the natural continuously reshape one another in the construction of our reality.
Her process incorporates research and speculative exercises in writing, drawing, and film, which translate into sculptures, installations, and artist publications. She is drawn to speculation and fiction not as an escape from reality, but for their potential to rehearse and shape our present and future.
As the founder of Ekumen, an artist-run space for contemporary art in Lima, she understands this project as an extension of her artistic research: if her installations speculate on alternative geographies and new forms of coexistence, Ekumen attempts to practice them through collective labor, testing other forms of institutionality from the local.
Her work has been part of solo and group exhibitions, most recently a solo show at Proyecto Amil (PE), a group show at Kunsthaus Baselland (CH), and her selection as a finalist for the Pasaporte para un Artista prize (PE) and the ICPNA Contemporary Art Prize 2024 (PE), among others. She has participated in residencies such as Haciendo Contexto at Proyecto Amil (PE), Paraply at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen (DK), and Farm Studio in Prague (CZ).