Neotropical Migration

Neotropical migration is a project where material and conceptual research is focused on visual and intellectual strategies of receptivity in the viewer towards humans and interspecies relations. Working with painting and collage, I am also invested in human dialogue with the natural world from an Ecuadorian mestizo perspective. Analyzing the natural phenomenon of bird migrations has allowed me to visualize my ideas about my personal migration in the form of paintings and collages. While in painting I weave together narratives from different periods from western painting history; the collage work explores an interdisciplinary dialogue of aesthetic transformations, where I aim to generate elastic and hybrid narratives that lend themselves for fluid ways of sharing knowledge. Through my material practice, I weave and juxtapose diverse visual universes together so that they might emerge as new ecosystems expanding beyond their established meanings whether in biology, astronomy, anthropology, etc. My aim is to open a dialogue with histories of representation like painting history and natural history, to challenge their aesthetic structures and re-imagine them in a contemporary art context.