Estiaje

Juana Córdova, Irina Liliana García and Pamela Suasti

Abstract

In this collective exhibition, Juana Córdova, Irina Liliana García, and Pamela Suasti engage in a creative dialogue from different regions of Ecuador, guided by the notion of estiaje—the seasonal ebb of rivers, which also becomes a metaphor for waiting, fragility, and care. Using gathered materials—wool, seeds, branches, leaves, honey—and techniques that require time and presence, the artists explore collaborative forms of creation that challenge individual boundaries. They intervene in each other’s works, like in an exquisite corpse, embracing the unexpected. Landscape, body, and plant life intertwine in a poetics that reflects on the tension between the intimate and the collective, the ephemeral and the vital. This curatorial text accompanies the exhibition Estiaje, held in July 2024 at Saladentro (Cuenca) and in August and September at Casa del Barrio (Guayaquil), Ecuador.