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Coolabah, Vol.2, 2009, ISSN 1988-5946 Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, 

Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona 

 

 

 

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Mariela Garibay  
 
Lima, 1976 

She is currently engaged in completing her Ph.D.at Barcelona University, Spain, and 

will complete by Fall 2009 

Doctoral program in Public Space and Urban Regeneration. 

B.F.A. (Bachelor in Fine Arts), Pontific Catholic University of Peru, 2004 

 

 

She has held solo exhibitions in Catalunya, Zaragoza and Peru. 

She has won prizes for her sculptures and drawings in Peru. 

 

 

 
 

Sacred time in stone 
 
History is imbued with the 

cultural significance of Stone 

which are charged with meaning 

because they are witnesses to and 

participants in the physical 

construction of history itself. Time 

is represented in my work in the 

idea of one stone superimposing 

itself on another. Stone has been 

used to build sacred sites in 

different societies because they 

allow for the imbrication of the 

sacred and the worldly within 

each culture .My work always has 

a spiritual depth which evokes the 

transcendental.  The timelessness 

of stone and the forms I choose as 

well as the vertical lines recurrent 

in my work, are intimately linked 

to the idea of the relationship 

between the worldly and the 

spiritual. In using stone I take as 

my reference the Andean sacred 

towers known as “Apachetas” 

which unite both sky and earth  In my work Stone is not an object of worship but I am 

aware of the sacred value that it has for some Andean societies and hence my deep 

respect for those beliefs and traditions which are still alive today.