Alonso Leon-Velarde lives and works between Lima and Mexico City. Primarily working in painting, his work combines elements of personal history, science fiction, and contemporary subjects. The artist considers the ways western media travels and permeates South American visual cultures, examining traces of orthodoxy embedded in the landscape. Additionally working in sound, Leon-Velarde’s compositions often incorporate improvisation and a group of constant collaborators. Leon-Velarde has been included in exhibitions at El Instante Fundación, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Whitechapel gallery, London; Drawing a Blank at The Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, London; O’Flaherty’s, New York and Ginsberg Galería, Lima.