El dedo en la llaga

de Miguel A. López

For almost thirty-five years, the artistic production of Jaime Higa Oshiro (b Lima, 1960) has portrayed with humor, intelligence and irony various transformations in Peru, noting the imagery of political violence, religious iconography, music, the dramatization of the identity and popular culture. Curated by Miguel López, the retrospective exhibition "To hit a raw nerveʺ is a mix of pop, minimalist, contemporary and ironic art expressed through more than eighty works including paintings, prints, photographs, collages, comics, performance documentation, as well as graphic art for magazines and audio cassettes. The works of Higa, express a peculiar vision characterized by the transgression, the alteration of others images, and the intrusion of his own, reinvented paradigmatic pictures and using part of his hobbies: comic books, terror movies and Japanese manga comics.