in collaboration with Anamaría Garzón Mantilla and Francisco Hurtado Caicedo
In 2022 Ecuador commemorated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of oil extraction from the ecuadorean Amazon. In 1972 the first oil barrel
traveled from Lago Agrio, in the Amazonía, to Balao, in the Coast. This was the beginning of Ecuadorian contemporary history, dramatically traversed by oil exploitation: ecological damage, periods of economic wellbeing followed by others of severe crisis, and dramatic migratory waves. Estado Fósil is a critical approach to the relation of oil and these last 50 years of Ecuadorian history. As an hyperoject, the existence of oil exceeds the conflicts in the Amazonía or its contribution to the local economy, therefore, we explore multiple realities affected by this resource. The project is divided in three sections: Materia, Conflictos and Imaginarios, through which we present contemporary art, photographic archives, documentaries, and essays.
PROJECT COORDINATION
Sofía Acosta Varea
Anamaría Garzón Mantilla
Francisco Hurtado Caicedo
PRODUCTION
DESIGN Diego Aguirre
EDITOR Diego del Valle Ríos
COLLABORATORS
Arts for the Commons (A4C): Rosa Jijón y Francesco Martone, Pocho Álvarez Wandemberg, María José Argenzio, María Auxiliadora Balladares, Fabiola Cedillo, Centro de la Naturaleza Extractiva (CENEx): Lucia Egaña, Juana Guerrero e Isabel Torres, David Cevallos, Cristóbal Corral, Juan Manuel Crespo, Eriberto Gualinga, Miguel Imbaquingo Chimarro, Judith Kimerling, Boloh Miranda Izquierdo, Sani Montahuano, Juan Carlos León, Daniel Lofredo Rota, María del Carmen Oleas Rueda, Daya Ortiz Durán, Purita Pelayo, Gabriela Ponce Padilla, José Proaño, Fausto Rivera Yánez, Salvador Izquierdo, Oscar Santillán, Tawna Cine desde Territorio, Misha Vallejo Prut, Ana Rosa Valdez, Ana María Varea
