Katherinne Fiedler
EN ALGÚN LUGAR / SOMEWHERE IN, 2021
Single channel
02 min 40 sec
Edition of 3
Credits:
Direction and edition: Katherinne Fiedler
Design sound: Pauchi Sasaki
Camera: Daniel Gárate
Color: Wawin Arriagada
The work documents an encounter between a large seashell and a snake exploring its curves and cavities. The music creates a sense of mystery and fascination, intensifying the visual experience, which is reminiscent of a love encounter. As the snake enters the shell, it evokes the multiple life forms that have inhabited this calcareous crust produced by a mollusk to ensure its survival in the ocean. This encounter suggests the appearance of an absent body and reveals an inter-species connection.
The camera shows us detailed close-ups of this encounter, focusing on the textures of the snake’s scaly skin and the softness of the conch shell’s mother-of-pearl. The cadence of the movement prevents a clear perception of the scale of the organisms. Although the entire shell is shown, the snake is never fully visible, as it is inserted inside the conch shell. This encounter has an erotic component, but also something mysterious and potentially disturbing
Katherinne Fiedler
GUARDIANES / GUARDIANS, 2024
3-channel video installation
11 min 28 sec
Edition of 3
Courtesy of the artist and mueve galeria
Credits:
Direction and editing: Katherinne Fiedler Gonzales-Daly
Scientific and curatorial advisor: José-Carlos Mariátegui
Cinematography: Daniel Gárate
Music and sound design: Pauchi Sasaki
Camera II: Ricardo Pigati
Editing assistant: Diego Cendra Woodman
Post Production and colorization: Eduardo Arraigada “Wawin”
Production: Nathalli Maguiño
Dogs: Chicho and Uber / Animal Action
At kilometre 31 of the old Panamericana highway in the Lurín Valley (Lima, Peru), the Museo Nacional del Perú (MUNA), the largest museum in Latin America, was built to house the nation’s cultural heritage. Three years after its opening, the museum remains largely empty, revealing the fragility of Peru’s cultural policy framework.
In the three-channel video installation Guardians, Katherinne Fiedler explores the ambitions and contradictions embedded in the MUNA’s monumental architecture. Continuous sequences guide viewers through deserted halls and endless corridors where the building both dominates and yields to the surrounding desert. In the absence of visitors or collections, stray dogs become its only inhabitants. Deeply rooted in pre-Columbian mythology, they embody protection while questioning conventional notions of heritage. Guardians reflects on the Peruvian desert as a site where heritage, nature, and political aspirations converge
Katherinne Fiedler
HABITAR / INHABIT, 2022
Single-channel video
01 min 50 sec
Edition of 3
Credits:
Director and Editor: Katherinne Fiedler
Director of Photography: Daniel Gárate
Sound Design: Pauchi Sasaki
Color: Wawin Arriagada
In Inhabit, we follow the movements of a snake inside an uninhabited space. The camera pursues the animal without ever fully catching up to it: we never see its head, only its sinuous movement through openings and crevices in plaster casts that occasionally reveal the traces of the dermis—the pores, marks, and scars of skin impressed onto the mineral surface.
The white shells, moulded from the artist’s own skin, remain in constant contact with a reptile that will, at some point in its life, shed its own skin. These two layers—the human and the animal, the one already shed and the one yet to be shed—evoke ideas of renewal, captivity, and death. It is no coincidence that the final image of the video is a disturbing mound where fragments of the body lie piled together, an ambiguous vision oscillating between the real and the digitally constructed.
This interplay between the real and the simulated, the physical and the virtual, places the work within a liminal territory characteristic of digital art: a space where the traditional acquires new meaning and becomes indistinguishable from the artificial. It is also a fiction constructed from reality, a form of nature transformed into artifice. It is within this friction that desire emerges—manifesting itself both in what is represented and in what is reconstructed.
Katherinne Fiedler lives and works between Lima, Madrid, and Paris. Her practice moves across sculpture, installation, and moving image. Landscape is approached as something produced rather than represented.
She works with ceramics, textiles, fossils, and shells, often in contact with industrial or synthetic matter. These materials are not separated into categories. They coexist within the same space and register different states of transformation.
Her work is built through processes of displacement and recomposition. Forms do not stabilize into fixed images. They remain in transition, holding traces of extraction and use. The distinction between nature and culture is not taken as given; it is put under pressure through each material decision.
She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.
Her work has been presented across Latin America and Europe, including at the MAAT for the 7th
Lisbon Architecture Triennale and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC), where she
presented Guardianes (curated by José Carlos Mariátegui). She has undertaken residencies at
Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá), LARA Panamá, Utopiana (Switzerland),
Hawapi (Peru), and Bilbaoarte (Bilbao).
She received the BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grant for Creators and Researchers (2023), the CIFO Emerging Artist Award (2017), and the Europe Moves grant from the Goethe-Institut.
Recent solo exhibitions include Guardianes (MAC Lima), Lo inmenso y lo pequeño (Galería del Paseo, 2022), El futuro de la memoria (Galería del Paseo, 2019), and Ficción variable (La Galería, 2015). Group exhibitions include the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale (MAAT), Negar el desierto (MAC Lima, 2021), and No Black, No White (CIFO, Miami, 2017).
mueve (galería ) is a contemporary art project based in Lima that operates through a flexible structure combining a permanent nucleus with itinerant exhibitions across the city and other regions of Peru. Founded by Marianelli Neumann and Tadeo Bellatin Elmore, the gallery develops exhibitions, research initiatives, and collaborations that connect artists from Peru and Latin America with international curatorial and institutional
networks.
Rather than beginning from a fixed idea of what a gallery should be, mueve (galería ) understands itself as a project in movement. Its structure responds to a broader transformation within the contemporary art ecosystem, where traditional gallery models are increasingly being reconsidered. Within this context, the project seeks not to impose a predefined framework but to listen— to artists, curators, researchers, and audiences — and to ask what it means to open and sustain a contemporary art space today, particularly within the historical and geographical conditions of Peru.
This approach involves a continuous process of reflection: on what a gallery is or might become, on how artistic practices circulate and take form within different contexts, and on what contemporary art can signify within a country marked by diverse cultural traditions, uneven institutional structures, and complex historical narratives.
The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists whose practices engage critically with the social, historical, and ecological conditions of the present. Particular attention is given to positions that expand established narratives of Latin American art, including practices shaped by Amazonian cosmologies, vernacular knowledge systems, and material experimentation. Through exhibitions, publications, and research projects, mueve seeks to situate these practices within broader international conversations.