ecuadorian artists
GEORGE FEBRES: TRANSLATION, IRONY, AND LIBERATION. AN ECUADORIAN ARTIST IN THE DIASPORA
The life and work of George Febres (Guayaquil, 1943 – New Orleans, 1996) occupy an uneasy place in the history of Ecuadorian art. An artist like him is an anomaly within the local narrative. His work, clearly influenced by Pop Art, Neo-Surrealism, and the culture of the US South, marks a profound rupture with the experience of national art, which has been shaped by the political discourse of indigenism and class struggle.
ADRIÁN BALSECA: ROUTING RUBBER
Canal Projects presents ROUTING RUBBER, an exhibition that showcases Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca’s (Quito, b. 1989) research on the plantation rubber industry in the Amazon. Produced on black and white, 16mm film, The Skin…
OSCAR SANTILLÁN: A HEAVY HALO
Oscar Santillan’s exhibition A Heavy Halo extends several points of enquiry to think about the ways we entangle the artificial and the organic in light of urgent ecological changes for sustainable interspecies futures.