Armando Andrade Tudela

Armando Andrade Tudela is an artist who explores the intersection of cultures through various mediums including photography, drawing, and installation. His work focuses on the accidental occurrences of Western modernist aesthetics in South America and the popular American imagination of Tiki culture.

One of his notable works is Camion (2004), a book and slide installation that features photographs of customized goods trucks and skeletal roadside structures found in Lima, Peru. These structures with their minimal designs and abstract geometry seem to echo Constructivism.

In his work Inka Snow (2006), Tudela presents a book and architectural model of a community seemingly built within giant lines of cocaine. This work alludes to Peru's famous Nazca Lines and references the histories of migration and colonization in South America that led to the development of the cocaine industry.

Tudela's work often references the Tropicalia movement, and he cites Hélio Oiticica, a former member of the 1960s Brazilian avant-garde, as a major influence on his work. Overall, Tudela's diverse practice explores the points of cultural intersection and provides a thought-provoking commentary on the impact of cultural exchange and colonialism.