Chorrillos

As a young participant of the modernist revolution of the Peruvian photographic canon, a member of the group that formed around the historic Fotogalería Secuencia (1978-1981), Mariella Agois produced this small series freely shot with a Diana camera before developing a more intense and prolonged pictorial activity that has continued to this day. Chorrillos, a traditional district of fishermen on Lima’s coast, appears in this series from an intimist perspective, close to the celebrative sensibility of the beach and the popular district. It is one of the various approaches to the experience of common people that characterizes part of the artistic production from the late 1970s and early 1980s. (TC)