Tomatis considers herself a multidisciplinary artist, with a practice centered on post-colonial discourses like racism, classism and misogyny.
But what she does mostly is seek for contradictions in everyday life, contradictions socio-culturally accepted even though they don’t convey the values we praise to live in. For example, when someone declares to be non-racist but dressestheir indigenous nannies in white without being aware of the effect of the image they are putting forward. The artist likes to use satire and irony to portray her models and uses aesthetics as a weapon to show the anachronism of such examples.
In the past two years the artist has developed a fascination for projects developed with the community, art in the middle of life affecting every aspect of it and not so much to be observed. Also, in the past years she has started a research of the Andean Cosmovision getting to know their rituals and traditions, which are much more in sync with nature and with the plural as an escape of the neoliberal individualist capitalism that governs every other aspect of our lives.
Born and bred in Lima Perú, studied Art at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Corriente Alterna. She excelled in painting, she develops as a teacher and as a manager and producer of cultural events, as well as some incursions in curatorship. She did three important solo shows like “Juan”, Galeria de Arte Lucia de la Puente, “Neurosis Histérica”, Fundación Euroidiomas Miraflores and “Happy Days” in Galeria de Arte Vértice.
Recently graduated NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, in Italy with a master’s in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies with a thesis on the Andean Cosmovision supervised by the anthropologist Andrea Staid. While in Italy her work would take a turn to a deepest interest in post-colonial discourses and having been directly involved with Spazio X contemporary more interested in the relation between real life and art and how can it affect a community. In Milan she participated in some group shows like Dissacordi, Ritratto di famiglia and Errore di Calcolo.