y tus manos, montañas

y tus manos, montañas is a collective exhibition that brings together works by Pierina Másquez, Patricia Rengifo, and master artist Gaudencia Yupari. Through different perspectives and artistic languages, the three artists reflect on the relationship between body, territory, and memory. In their works, mourning unfolds as a fabric of experiences: familial loss, political and ecological violence, and migration. From this ground, narratives are constructed that enter into dialogue with the land, opening paths toward resistance and healing rooted in familial and territorial lineages. The title comes from a verse by Lourdes Aparición, poet and psychologist, from her poem “Nuevo nacimiento” in the poetry collection Apacheta (2021). In this poem, Aparición weaves reflections on memory and migration, on merging the body with the land and creating belonging. From Lima, each artist works from a deep relationship with the traditions of their native territories, transforming their lived experiences into intimate, embodied reflections. As Aymara theorist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui points out, it is necessary to tell our own stories and memories “with the bloods that inhabit us, with our environments and with our landscapes.” Following this idea and its resonance with Aparición’s verse, the exhibition brings together works that intertwine body and landscape in narratives where memory dissolves and is reconstructed. Among the pieces, mourning, resistance, and celebration coexist, activating a dialogue of collective transformation.