Searching in the silence of things

Abstract

In November 2017, I premiered the work-installation-documentary We searche in the silence of things at Casa Mitómana (Quito), as the closure of an artistic residency guided by Shaday Larios and Jomi Oligor, from the group Oligor y Microscopia. The work explores the poetics of objects found in Bahía de Caráquez after the catastrophic earthquake of April 16, 2016, in relation to the city's own, family and collective memory. With the remains of lost houses and stories of forced displacement due to the infeasibility of the old inhabited place, this piece faces how to build from what remains and what was, how to remember from the cracks, how matter and memory are transformed and resignify themselves. In the work, a habitable memory space is built and inhabited by family stories and reflections on vulnerability, memory, loss and resilience. It is an invitation to look at the moment in which everything is transformed.