Killing Machine
2024, Drawing on paper with freehand ink, 150 x 150 cm.
This transmedia drawing work (as the artist calls this technique of drawing with QR codes) is based on research about spectral realism, which is a philosophical and aesthetic trend in Latin America that conceptually explains the levels of violence in our societies and the logistics, machinery, and strategies developed for the exercise of biopower.
Angie Bonino has been working directly with philosopher Santiago Arcila (Colombia), one of the founders of this movement, and also includes texts by Argentine philosopher Germán Prósperi from the same movement, complementing the concepts with some drawn from the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
The artist designs hyper-killing and homicidal machines, exacerbating the possibilities of design created for killing with tanks featuring multiple cannons for this purpose. With the transmedia drawing, she manages to incorporate various media, from journalistic television to internet platforms that are part of the strategies for dissemination or silencing used by biopower. Doing everything on paper is a way to indicate the notes, bureaucracies, and planning employed on and for paper in the planning of control and exercise of power.
Perú. Graphic designer from the Toulouse Lautrec Design Institute and FAUA Faculty of Architecture at the National University of Engineering (UNI). Visual artist specialized in painting from the National School of Fine Arts of Peru (ENSABAP). Completed a Master’s in Creative Writing at UNMSM from 2017 to 2018.
She has participated in various biennials such as Havana in Cuba, Dak’art in Senegal, the Bronx in the United States, and others in Peru, Poland, Spain, Kosovo, and Ecuador.
She has held solo exhibitions at the Ibero-American Contemporary Art Museum of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain; at the Contemporary Art Museum of Lima, Peru; at the Qorikancha Museum in Cusco, Peru; and at the San Marcos Art Museum in Lima, Peru, among others.
She has participated in various fairs in Peru, the United States, and Spain. In 2005, she received a scholarship for a Master’s in Interactive Systems in Audiovisual Media at Mecad, Ramón Llull University in Barcelona, Spain, followed by a scholarship for a Master’s in Cybersecurity, Free Software Systems, European Community 2006-2007.
