Alejandra Cárdenas: A Body Like a Home

A conversation with the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist about colonial scars and embracing sobriety

Alejandra Cárdenas is as an experimental guitarist and composer, who’s been recording and performing under the moniker Ale Hop for more than a decade, presenting her work at festivals and institutions across the world.

Raised in Lima’s underground music scene in the 2000s, Cárdenas first went to New York in 2013 for an artist residency and then moved to …