Artist: Cristian Laime Yujra
Date: 2020
Size: 112 x 76 cm
Museum: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
Technique: Oil
Painter Cristian Laime Yujra (b.1988) updates the portrait of Juana Azurduy, the Bolivian independentist heroine, for a contemporary audience. Bringing to the forefront her imposing and splendorous figure in military uniform, Laime plays with lighting from the dramatic sky around Azurduy’s expressive visage, reminding us of both the greatness of this historical character and the solid technique of the painter. By placing the heroine in the middle of the battlefield, Laime unsettles the masculine-centered narrative of Latin American independence, while restoring Azurduy to her military rank and role in the birth of the new independent republics. In so doing, the artist uses the formal, almost academic language of oil painting, while destabilizing the meaning of traditional national symbols.Born in 1988 in Carabuco, on the banks of the Andean Lake Titicaca, Cristian Laime Yujra forms part of a new generation of Bolivian painters. He graduated from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes Hernando Siles and has enjoyed a productive career in painting ever since. In 2019, the Museo de Arte Tambo Quirquincho in La Paz held his retrospective, solo exhibition ‘From colonized to decolonized,’ after Laime’s work
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