SPAIN

The Peruvian Sandra Gamarra Heshiki is the first foreign artist to represent Spain at the Biennale, with a project that addresses the consequences of Spanish colonization in Latin America, questioning its historical narrative methods. Divided into five internal rooms and an external Migrant Garden, the exhibition becomes a space to reinterpret Spanish pictorial heritage (Murillo, Zurbarán, Velázquez) and make silenced cultures visible. It combines plastic arts with elements such as quotes from ecofeminist writers and thinkers, facsimiles of illustrations from real archives, and representations of alien or invasive plants that hint at the impact of colonizers on indigenous populations.