Ecuador announces that it will be represented at the 61st Venice Biennale by Tawna and Oscar Santillán. The Pavilion of Ecuador is curated by Manuela Moscoso. Tawna & Oscar brings together two practices shaped by Amazonian and Andean territories, each engaging forms of knowledge, relation, and imagination that have long remained outside the terms through which Western modernity has sought to define the world. The exhibition does not propose a single narrative or a unified image of Ecuador. Instead, it brings into proximity distinct ways of inhabiting and sensing the present, attending to what dominant systems have ignored, rendered invisible, or refused to recognize as fully real. The project unfolds through a shared concern with worlds that persist beyond the authority of classification, extraction, and separation. In Tawna’s work, memory,
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