Miembro Fantasma: Bodies, Echoes, and Shifting Realities at Balneario in Lima
A body can remain present even in absence. A gesture can linger after disappearance. A phantom sensation can become more real than the flesh itself. With Miembro Fantasma, artists Raura Oblitas, Luis Enrique Zela-Koort, Miguel Andrade Valdez, and Aileen Gavonel — represented by N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico — enter precisely this unstable territory, where the body dissolves into memory, projection, and spectral possibility.
Presented at Balneario, the exhibition runs through May 30. More than a group exhibition, Miembro Fantasma unfolds as an atmospheric inquiry into corporeality and its limits — or perhaps into what remains once those limits begin to collapse.
Miguel Andrade Valdez paintings; Luis Enrique Zela-Koort sculpture and Raura Oblitas sculpture. Exhibition Miembro Fantasma N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico at Balneario, Lima. Photo: Juan Pablo Murrabarra
Borrowing its title from the phenomenon of the “phantom limb,” the exhibition approaches the body as something unfinished and unstable. Across the works, forms appear fragmented, extended, or transformed, drifting between the organic and the unfamiliar. Flesh becomes architecture, memory becomes matter, and the human figure stretches toward something increasingly difficult to define.
Luis Enrique Zela-Koort "Perturbación en los campos del Deseo"; Raura Oblitas sculpture: S/T 4 and on the front Luis Enrique Zela-Koort "Excreciones III". Exhibition Miembro Fantasma N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico at Balneario, Lima. Photo: Juan Pablo Murrabarra
Rather than offering fixed narratives, the exhibition creates a space of tension: between presence and absence, intimacy and estrangement, materiality and illusion. The participating artists construct speculative landscapes where the body is continuously reconfigured, opening portals into dimensions that feel psychological, futuristic, and ghostly all at once.
Aileen Gavonel "Armas Suaves" Series. Exhibition Miembro Fantasma N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico at Balneario, Lima. Photo: Juan Pablo Murrabarra
The exhibition also coincides with the launch of Balneario in Lima, a new independent space in Barranco dedicated to dialogue across visual arts, design, and architecture. Conceived as a fluid platform for exhibitions, conversations, and research processes, Balneario enters Lima’s cultural landscape with a program grounded in experimentation and critical exchange.
Raura Oblitas sculpture; Luis Enrique Zela-Koort sculpture and Miguel Andrade Valdez paintings. Miembro Fantasma Exhibition in N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico at Balneario, Lima.
There is something fitting about Miembro Fantasma inaugurating the space. The exhibition does not simply occupy Balneario — it activates it, filling it with traces, tensions, and shifting presences that linger beyond visibility.
Miguel Andrade Valdez paintings: S/T I and S/T II. Miembro Fantasma Exhibition in N.A.S.A.L. Gallery, Mexico at Balneario, Lima.
Miembro Fantasma can be visited Wednesday through Sunday from 12 pm to 6 pm, except Saturdays, when the exhibition remains open from 2 pm to 8 pm. Until May 30, 2026. Tarapaca 181, Barranco, Lima, Peru.
Photography by: Juan Pablo Murrabarra
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