The Sea of Lima.
As exhibited at Royal College of Art, Sculpture. June, 2026.
Migration is often framed as movement toward opportunity, safety, or transformation, but I am interested in the emotional residue it leaves behind—the disparity between where the body exists and where the heart continues to wander.
Yearning is not simply nostalgia. It is a layered and contradictory state: grief and hope intertwined; loss sharpened by possibility. To move away is to fracture your sense of belonging. Landscapes become memories. Language, food, and music slowly take new shapes.
I try to bring a part of Lima to London – a city with no ocean. It is an attempt of the impossible. I think of the current situation of the world: globalization, war, the constant search for a better life, where we are pushed to create connections with cultures that are new to us. Nonetheless, the question remains: with time, is it possible to unroot us from our culture? Or are we doomed to miss a part of us that already stopped existing?
Through sound, video, and smell, I invite the public to choose what sensory experience they want to have of The Sea of Lima.
// This project won the Gilbert Bayes RCA Award and is partially sponsored by The Olfactory Art Studio.
This video piece is part of the sculpture The Sea of Lima, addressing to the sense of seeing. All of the images were recorded at when the sun is about to come out. The viewer can look inside the Corten steel cube through two small holes made for the eyes to watch.
It was made with the artist own’s archive at Waikiki mixed with new images at La Herradura and Yuyos, at Lima, Peru. The piece was made in collaboration with Estudio Famas.