""Over the last few years, I began restoring the abandoned adobe house of my grandparents. It is important to me to safeguard the house and workshop of my ancestors. It seems equally appropriate to me that this space be transformed into a small, independent art school, given that the nearest and largest city, Huancayo, does not have an art school nor a museum of art," he said."
"Works on show by the artist in the Artes Mundi exhibition in Cardiff include the film El Corazon de la Montaña(2018-19) which highlights ecological damage in the Huaytapallana mountain range. "Nature and the ecosystem [there] is being destroyed because of mining," he said. Asked if he considers himself an activist, he says: "I'm more of an artist-[and considered] an activist because I belong to a certain [Indigenous] group.""
Antonio Paucar won the 11th Artes Mundi prize and received £40,000 for performances, sculptures and video works rooted in Andean culture and Peruvian heritage. He plans to convert his grandparents' abandoned adobe house in the central highlands of Peru into a museum and a small, independent art school to serve a region without such institutions. Works in the Artes Mundi shows include the film El Corazon de la Montaña (2018–19), which highlights ecological damage in the Huaytapallana mountain range caused by mining. Paucar studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and previously worked as a beekeeper; he incorporates Indigenous language and personal materials into his work.
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