by Vani | Aug 3, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
History says that a group of enslaved people were brought to Ecuador to do forced labor on the Jesuit plantations. It was the 16th century and a wave of yellow fever had killed a large part of the conquered indigenous population that worked in them. Colonizers wanted...
by Vani | Jul 18, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
In the Ecuadorian region of Valle del Chota there is a town where boys and girls become stars. It remains in a place that was once known as the “Valley of Blood and Death” because the indigenous people, forced to work in the sun on sugar and cane farms,...
by Vani | Jul 6, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Mayra Da Silva is a visual artist and communicator. Pablo Albarenga is a photojournalist. They were joined by the call for Africamericanos for audiovisual projects on Afro-descendant communities. They presented Afrouruguayos, with the idea of building a new...
by Vani | Jun 27, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
What would Christian saints be like if they had been born on the Colombian Pacific coast? What would their lives be like? Their houses? Their rituals? Yeison Riascos knows it: “If San José had been born in Buenaventura, he would have been one more fisherman or...
by Vani | Jun 25, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky was born in the United States but is also Ecuadorian. All her life she lived in that ambiguous space: neither totally black nor totally white. Latina in her native country, gringa in the country of her great-grandparents, thousands of...