Adrián Balseca
Born in 1989, Adrián Balseca is an Ecuadorian visual artist who works in the fields of moving images, photography, and installation. His work explores the connections between extractive economies, industrialization, and the environmental crisis, examining how colonial histories of resource exploitation continue to shape contemporary territories and forms of social organization. He lives and works in Quito.
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In Praise of Darkness
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Deep in Ecuador’s Mullumica Valley, figures are busy extracting obsidian, an opaque volcanic rock. The rock then begins its metamorphosis, transported from the quarry to the pristine confines of a laboratory where it takes on its ultimate role – as a replacement for the director’s artificial eye. A mineral chronicle charting the course of healing.
In Praise of Darkness
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Deep in Ecuador’s Mullumica Valley, figures are busy extracting obsidian, an opaque volcanic rock. The rock then begins its metamorphosis, transported from the quarry to the pristine confines of a laboratory where it takes on its ultimate role – as a replacement for the director’s artificial eye. A mineral chronicle charting the course of healing.
