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Adrián Balseca - Untitled (Isla Santay)
Technique: Inkjet print on Ilford Cotton Rag
Artist Biography:Adrián Balseca (Quito, Ecuador, 1989) lives and works in Quito. Adrián Balseca's work aims to activate strategies of representation, narration, and/or interaction in order to highlight cultural specificities of a particular place. It explores the relationship and tensions between industrial and craft practices, revealing a fascination with the historic processes, and the configuration of materials involved in the production of manufactured goods. His work ranges from small interventions to large-scale 'site specific' actions or video documentations and elaborates on ideas of emerging economies, nature, power, and social memory. Exhibitions include:The Unbalanced Land, Madragoa, Lisbon (2019); Estela blanca, Ginsberg Galeria, Lima (2019); Grabador fantasma, CCA, Quito (2019); Horamen, Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado, Quito (2017); The Skin of Labour, Madragoa, Lisbon (2016). Selected group exhibitions include: Cosmopolis #2, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo (2019); osloBIENNALEN, First Edition, Oslo (2019); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2019); BIENAL SUR, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario (2017); CEAAC, Strasbourg (2016); CACQuito (2016); EDOC 15, Quito (2016); Museo de Antioquia, Medellin (2015); Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition, Miami (2015); In 2013, he won the inaugural Premio Brasil - Emerging Art Prize, at the Center for Contemporary Art Quito (CAC) and in 2014 he received the Premio Paris at the 12th International Cuenca Biennial: Leaving to return. He was awarded the annual Grants & Commissions Program 2015, at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Upcoming exhibitions include: 34th São Paulo Biennial: Faz escuro mas eu canto, São Paulo, and Pájaro Piedra, kino / Cine Tonalá, Mexico City.
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