La Voz del Anonimato (The Voice of Anonymity) is a solo exhibition by 2025 Artist In Residence Layqa Nuna Yawar, open to the public starting September 10th, 2025, at PES at Ironside Newark.

RSVP for the Opening Reception here.

La voz del Anonimato / The Voice of Anonymity is the result of a two-year residency and presents artwork centering the voices of contemporary Andean diaspora members from the tri-state area. With this body of work, Layqa is focusing on historical invisibility, embodied by his study of unidentified colonial master painters of the Andes, and contemporary invisibility, experienced by immigrant people the world over, but specifically those living in the USA during the current rise of neo-fascism. Layqa is driven by a question: What would his contemporary canon and culture look like without this colonial erasure? Some of the answers come as fluid imagery that does not try to hold on to a single reality, but that offers contradictory meanings instead of synthesis, exploration of materials, and investigation of landscape and portraiture, both of the Western tradition and specific to the Andean diaspora.

During the exhibition, a series of public programs titled Minga & Memory will take place. Together, these paintings and programming turn into a decolonial gesture that might continue as memory or form part of a collective imaginary.