Inés Cardó (b.1999) is a Peruvian/Spanish artist working across performance, photography, installation & printed matter.
Her work explores extraction as a manifestation of the Global North’s colonial legacy in South America, referring as embodied extraction to the imprint left on bodies after centuries of material and cultural plunder. This is a terrain of struggle and resistance where bodies become living archives. She understands extractive systems as a continuum between the plunder of natural resources, knowledges & cultural artefacts, and bodies through migration. By highlighting these connections, she is interested in enquiring the dichotomy between the politics of scarcity and abundance.
Inés envisions anticolonial practices as projects of worldbuilding, where Global South peoples have the agency to imagine lives beyond extraction, embracing non-linear temporalities and non-rational modes of knowing that offer ways to relate to the world outside of exploitative logics.
inescardo3@gmail.com
CV
Education
2024/25 - Royal College of Art: MA Contemporary Art Practice (The Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship).
2021 - Chelsea College of Arts: BA Fine Art.
Solo Shows & Commissions
2025
lo sagrado | Latin American House (London, UK)
2022
The Knowledge of Taste | South London Gallery. Commissioned by Latin Elephant.
Group Shows
2025
- Focus On: Torrijos Ceiling | V&A East Storehouse (London, UK)
- Made Anywhere | Fondation Fiminco (Paris, FR)
- Royal College of Arts 2025 Graduate Show (London, UK)
- Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR)
- Libros Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair | La Casa Endendida (Madrid, ES)
- CAP: LIVE | Hangar Space, Royal College of Art (London, UK)
2024
- MiraLook Books | Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga (Madrid, ES)
- Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR)
- Libros Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair | La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES)
- बंधन Bandhan | The Art Gallery - Ahmedabad Ni Gufa (Ahmedabad, IN)
2023
- It All Starts With A Thread | Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK)
- Libros Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair | La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES)
2022
- Through the Crowd, curated by Jo Collective | Greatorex Street E.1 (London, UK)
2021
- Finding Home, curated by Tate Collective for Late at Tate Britain | Tate Britain (London, UK)
- Fine Art Degree Show | Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK)
2019
- El país de los tuertos | Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, ES)
Residencies
[forthcoming: 2025, Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, CN)]
2024, 56a Infoshop (London, UK)
Workshops
2025, Zine Making as a Research Methodology | University of Westminster - BA Fine Art Mixed Media (London, UK)
2024, Late at Tate Modern (September, October, November): Safety Blanket | Tate Modern (London, UK)
2021, Murals for Resistance (with Colectivo Shipibas Muralistas) |Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK)
2019, Collage & Identidad | La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES)
Collections & Archives
2024: Southwark Archives, Centre Pompidou (Bibliothèque Kandinsky)
2023: The Feminist Library, Liberate Collection (Goldsmiths University Library)
2021 : UAL Art Collection
Writing & Interviews
2022