Latin American contemporary art, photography, publishing and sound at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

July 2 – 9, 2026
Opening: July 2, 2026
Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin

Karne Kunst presents “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose, an exhibition at Bardo Projektraum in Berlin bringing together photography, publishing, text and sound to explore the pose as a cultural language.

The exhibition features Consuelo Press, María José García Piaggio, Alejandra Morote Peralta, Diana Moncada and Alejandra Borea, artists, writers and editors working across Lima, Berlin and Mexico City. Through archival images, printed matter, essay writing and sound, the project reflects on how the female body has been represented, watched, staged and transformed through photography and visual culture.

About the Exhibition

What does a pose do to a body? How does it transform it, shape it, and inscribe it into a field of meanings?

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose brings together photography, publishing, text, and sound to explore the pose as a cultural language: a gesture learned, inherited, repeated, performed, resisted, and transformed across time.

The exhibition expands from the publication My Name is Dolores But Call Me Lolita, edited by María José García Piaggio and published by Consuelo Press. The book gathers found images of women posing before the camera: photographs rescued from flea markets in Lima and Madrid, images from erotic magazines, and screenshots from live-streamed erotic shows online.

Across these different contexts, the female body appears as image, performance, archive, and sign. The pose becomes a way of reading how femininity has been staged, circulated, desired, watched, and reproduced through photography and visual culture.

Writer and designer Diana Moncada encountered the book at a fair. From this encounter, she wrote an essay that accompanies the second edition of the publication, extending the visual archive into language. Her text asks how the pose makes the body visible, how it installs a gaze, and how it produces a shared grammar of gestures.

For its presentation at Bardo Projektraum, the project expands further into sound through Consuelo Press Radio, led by Alejandra Borea. Taking the publication and Moncada’s essay as a starting point, the sound piece asks: What does a pose sound like? What atmosphere is produced by a body that knows it is being watched?

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose gathers these different mediations — photography, book, essay, and sound — as overlapping layers. Together, they form a multiple mirror where critical distance and familiarity intertwine, inviting us to reflect on our own relationship with the body, the gaze, and the image.

Artists & Contributors

Consuelo Press
Consuelo Press is an independent publishing house operating between Lima and Berlin, founded in 2024 and run by Alejandra Morote Peralta and María García Piaggio. The press specializes in small-print-run publications that blend image and text, centering projects that engage with archive, memory, and the body, with a focus on Latine authors based around the world.

María José García Piaggio
María José García Piaggio is a Peruvian artist living between Lima and Mexico City. Her practice centers on portraiture and image appropriation, working with archival and photographic material to reconstruct and bear witness to the ways the female body has been treated in photography. She is co-director of Consuelo Press.

Alejandra Morote Peralta
Alejandra Morote Peralta is a Peruvian artist living in Berlin, working with video, text, and printed matter. Her research-based practice draws from personal, popular, and institutional archives, exploring pain, love, memory, visibility, and exposure. She is co-director of Consuelo Press with María García Piaggio.

Diana Moncada
Diana Moncada is a writer and designer based in Lima, Peru. She is the author of the poetry collections Cuerpo crepuscular, Objeto distante, and Copia padre muerte. She writes about fashion from a historical and philosophical perspective through her Substack blog About what.

Alejandra Borea
Alejandra Borea is a Berlin-based musician, sound artist, and researcher. Her work explores the politics of listening, sound studies, archival practices, and sampling. She currently runs Consuelo Press Radio, extending the work of the publishing house into sound.

Public Program

Opening

July 2, 2026
Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.
Opening of the exhibition “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose, with the presentation of the expanded project by Consuelo Press.

Conversation: The Pose and Its Mediations

Date and time to be confirmed
Hybrid format: Lima / Berlin
A conversation around the process of the project, the politics of the pose, and the movement between photography, publishing, writing, and sound.

Visit

Bardo Projektraum. Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 14:00–18:00 and by appointment.
Exhibition dates: July 2 – 9, 2026

Artists’ Instagram

@consuelo.press
@mariagarciapiaggio
@alemope
@di.moncada
@ale.borea

About Karne Kunst

Karne Kunst is a Berlin-based platform for contemporary art, cultural programs and artistic research shaped by Latin American and Caribbean diasporic practices. Through exhibitions, residencies, publications and public programs, Karne Kunst creates spaces for artists, curators and cultural workers engaging with memory, bodies, territories and the political urgencies of the present.

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose is presented by Karne Kunst at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.

Latin American Art and Diasporic Practices in Berlin

Presented by Karne Kunst at Bardo Projektraum, this exhibition is part of an ongoing program dedicated to contemporary art shaped by Latin American and Caribbean diasporic practices in Berlin.

Rather than approaching Latin American art as a fixed identity or geographical category, Karne Kunst understands it as a living field of artistic research, political memory and transnational exchange. “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose connects Lima, Berlin and Mexico City through a project that moves between archive, body, image, publishing and sound.

At Bardo Projektraum, these practices unfold in dialogue with the Berlin art scene, creating space for experimental formats, feminist perspectives and decolonial approaches to contemporary visual culture.