Rosana Monteverde

Uncovering Archive 2023 – Photography and motherhood – IB Dona
Is there another like
her, or very similar?

Rosana Monteverde, a Peruvian artist and researcher, proposes a critical examination of the Planas Archive through a gender-focused lens, contrasting it with the Julia Margarita Vargas Salas Archive. The latter reveals, through photographs documenting the life of a Peruvian caregiver and domestic worker, the invisibility, devaluation, and discrimination faced by thousands of migrant women in 20th-century Lima.

Is there another like her, or very similar? delves into domestic and caregiving work from an intersectional perspective and through the lens of contemporary photography.