Inés Cardó
b. 1999, Peru
Inés Cardó (b.1999) is a Peruvian/Spanish artist working across performance, photography, installation & printed matter.
Her work explores extraction as a manifestation of the Global North’s colonial legacy in South America, referring as embodied extraction to the imprint left on bodies after centuries of material and cultural plunder. This is a terrain of struggle and resistance where bodies become living archives. She understands extractive systems as a continuum between the plunder of natural resources, knowledges & cultural artefacts, and bodies through migration. By highlighting these connections, she is interested in enquiring the dichotomy between the politics of scarcity and abundance.
Inés envisions anticolonial practices as projects of worldbuilding, where Global South peoples have the agency to imagine lives beyond extraction, embracing non-linear temporalities and non-rational modes of knowing that offer ways to relate to the world outside of exploitative logics.