1983. Alfredo Ledesma Quintana (he/him) belongs to the third generation of a Peruvian silversmith family from the Andes. He also has roots in a peasant community in the “ceja de selva” of the region Amazonas in Peru. His families taught him art as a means of transmitting different visions of life in harmony with other living beings, and caring for nature’s rights. Through decolonial relearning and inspired by the indigenous traditions of his family tree, he explores what forms of values, thoughts, ideas and visual perception, traditional cosmovisions and ways of life exist in Andean and Amazonian societies. Currently, he seeks this path through his practices and research as a PhD candidate within the programme PhD in Art in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
His artistic practices offer other ways to think and feel with Nature, intending to offer a vision of different worldviews (including non-human worldviews), and leading us towards different perspectives, leaving human-centered perspectives, respecting the agency of different entities, and allowing us to appreciate differences. In this way, his work approaches the interdependencies of different communities with their territories and their way of relating to beings of the earth, as well as to open up the idea of a pluriverse as a proposal of how the world might be.
Alfredo Ledesma Quintana 