interview by SVEN SCHUMANN portrait by MAXIME BALLESTEROS All artworks Courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin Donna Huanca brings art to life. Based in New York and Berlin, this multidisciplinary artist combines painting, sculpture, sound, smell, and movement in her work. Real models, often naked and painted, move within the structures so that her installations become microcosms all their own. Inspired by Huanca’s Bolivian heritage, her background in music, and the occasional psychedelic trip, the experience becomes multisensory. SVEN SCHUMANN — How did the human body first find its way into your work? DONNA HUANCA — It’s always been a part of it. Even when I was making music in the beginning of my career, I worked with my body, and I was making my own clothes. Then, a lot of my early pieces were sculptures of people bound in clothes. I really enjoy looking for clothes and collecting them, so…