Womankind

The Womankind series are set primarily in two essential moments in the history of women: the early twentieth century's British suffragette movement, and the 1960s, which saw the mass introduction of the birth-control pill. These events were crucial to women's liberation, transforming their relationship with men.

Womankind resignifies the images that have been used to construct a history of women since the advent of photography. Women have traditionally been relegated to the background within hegemonic, often patronizing narratives. Acha-Kutscher's collages recover a female historical memory, which reflects her political struggle as well as the complexity of her private world.

Lima, Perú, 1968. Studied at the Facultad de Artes of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru. She has received various awards, including a Beca a la Creación Contemporánea-Matadero (2012), honorable mention at the Premio Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz (2012) and a Beca para la Promoción del Arte Español Contemporáneo from the Ministerio de Cultura (2010). In 2013, she was nominated Artista Revelación América Latina at the Premios RAC-Reconocimientos Arte Contemporáneo (Spain), organized by the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC), the Asociación de Coleccionistas 9915 and the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV). Her work forms part of the collection of the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, the Museo de la Universidad de Alicante and the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. She is currently the codirector of a curatorial project entitled Antimuseo.

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