Ginsberg + Tzu is pleased to announce its new bi-personal exhibition 'Far Away, So Close' by artists Daniela Bustamante and Andrea Grau that opens this Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 pm in our gallery in Lima.

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"The experience of being in a constant coming and going between Chicago and Lima, of living in the inbetween of these two places, generates in the artists a sensation of living in a limbo, where each return is at the same time a reunion and a farewell. In this perpetual transit, distance, both physical and emotional, redefines the migrant's relationship with his past, stimulating his imagination and transforming his vision of the present and future. This coming and going between two homes creates a permanent nostalgia: in Chicago, the. longing for Lima persists; in Lima, the absence of Chicago is deeply felt. This constant nostalgia becomes a creative engine that crosses borders.

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In this process, the migrant lives between two worlds, with one foot on each shore. The search for a lost identity in the place one leaves behind is intertwined with the formation of a renewed identity in the place one arrives at, even temporarily. Distance, the lack of definitive roots in a single place, turns each home into a border, a liminal space where the familiar and the strange coexist. This tension becomes fertile ground for artistic creation, where images, memories and objects from both worlds dialogue with each other, causing the transformation of what has been left behind.

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The act of remembering, of reconstructing what was experienced in one place or another, becomes a symbolic and deeply creative process. Through art, the real and the imagined merge, evoking moments that no longer exist in the same way. The past and present intertwine in a game of shadows, where the migrant's memory is both a refuge and a trap, since what is longed for is always one step further. This creative nostalgia generates works that inhabit that intersection between what is lost and what remains to be discovered.

 

The artist who lives between two worlds becomes a mediator between the place he left behind and the one he now occupies. In this duality, art stands as the space where uprooting and reconfiguration find their balance. What seems scattered and unconnected takes shape through creative power, where absences are filled with new meanings and what seems distant is transformed into a source of deep connection. Nostalgia, in this process, is not only a lament for what is lost, but an impulse to redraw the boundaries of what is known as home."