How do you relate to western visual representations of your own Peruvian culture? This question occupies the mind of artist Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, 1975) ever since he moved from Lima to London in 2001 to study at the Royal College of Art. He coined a term for the drawings, paintings, photographs and other projects that he has been developing around this question: Tropical Abstraction. In these works, Tudela fuses tropicali imaginary with more western forms of representation. He displaces historical facts with personal metaphors, and thereby turns his Tropical Abstraction into a ground for continuous transformation and play. The results of this ever-growing collection will be on show in The Bakery.
Armando Andrade Tudela
Past exhibition