Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Modulations – Sequence XXIX

the City of Miami Beach is pleased to announce that Modilasyon - Sekans XXIX, by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, represented by Livia Benavides Gallery, has been selected by Miami Beach residents and members of the public as the 2025 acquisition for the Legacy Purchase Program.

An annual initiative, the city’s Art in Public Places Committee selected artworks by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Patrick Dean-Hubbell, and Ken Tisa from a pool of applications from the emerging artists of the Art Basel Miami Beach Positions, Nova, as well as newcomers and recent entrants to the Galleries sector presenting early-career artists. The public then voted among the finalists, selecting Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s Modilasyon - Sekans XXIX for accession into the city’s public art collection.

Nan li Modilasyon series, Ximena Garrido-Lecca continues to explore the role of copper in Peru’s economy, where this natural resource is exported as a raw material for its use in tech industries. These new works integrate a series of abstract symbols inspired by modernist corporate logos used by diverse industries and corporate entities. By using these geometric symbols in a traditional woven form, she questions the relation between these modern images, tied to the engines of modernization and the global economy, and their links to pre-Columbian abstraction. The work also highlights the demand for accelerated growth and modernization in the context of a growing economy, under unregulated natural resource extraction, which often does not generate investment in local infrastructure and social welfare, but instead favors corporate gain.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. Lima, 1980) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. Recent solo exhibitions include Reverse Engineering at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2023), and Inflorescence at Portikus, Frankfurt (2022). Her works have also been featured in major international exhibitions such as the 2025 Sharjah Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, and are included in public collections such as the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, London; Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany; Kadist Foundation, Paris/ San Francisco; The Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina; and Museo de Arte de Lima, among others.