Claudia Martínez Garay  works in different media and is interested in how history travels through the material world, exploring the complexity of the appropriations and reworkings of pre-Colonial objects. Her work interrogates the pervasive effects of colonialism, especially in Peru, and how it manifests in the contemporary world. She uses popular imagery to analyse cultural stereotypes, but also to rescue it from official narratives. Her work pieces together fragmented histories in order to reanimate them in the present.