Reflecting on how romantic love is constructed and circulated, That Young Girl is in Love intimately assembles fragments across different media, from family archives to popular culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Much of this material is rooted in Lima, the artist’s home city. Song lyrics recur throughout the video, tracing how ideals of love are expressed, consumed, and internalized.  

Visitors are invited to sit on a red garden chair facing the screen. Familiar and domestic, the chair evokes the garden as a setting for family life, placing the viewer within the physical structures of intimacy. Perched atop a throbbing loudspeaker, a trembling bowl of red gelatine vibrates in tandem with a line from the video: ‘...desire makes you feel like jelly. It’s not wine, Rita, it’s blood.’ This line is excerpted from Alan Rudolph’s film Choose Me (1984), which Peralta’s grandparents had taped from the television onto the very same cassette that holds their family footage. Across the installation’s different media fragments, love emerges as something contagious, capable of reshaping the self.