Artists invite you to dialogue with your emotions about life and your fears in the exhibition ‘Yo soy’, at the Guayaquil Country Club

December is a month of reflection on the traditions that inspire this season, family, social, religious and spiritual, before Christmas. With that point as motivation, six artists from the collective Los que Sent reflected their internal dialogues in a collection of mixed media collected in the exhibition. I am. The exhibition opened on Thursday, December 14 and will be open until the end of the month.

The exhibition is curated by artist Mikaela Báez, who also exhibits her visual proposals. “I felt the initiative to celebrate the beautiful date that is Christmas through art. “Apart from the gifts, it is a very spiritual date, full of joy,” the curator explained before the inauguration.

“I am as such the concept of the recognition of eternity in one. Every artist recognizes that part of himself in his art. Everyone could interpret it in a different way and that’s why they created different kinds of beautiful works, explaining their work, their feelings and their emotions in a super clear and simple way, which seems to me the most important thing in this exhibition.”

In addition to Báez, the exhibition includes pieces by Daniel Morales, Andrea Guevara, Elisa Icaza, Cristina Orrantia and Antonella Basseto, who attended the first day of screenings of their works.

“My proposal in this exhibition is landscapes, inner eternity. Most likely it is a failed attempt on my part to convey through my art something immense that I feel within me or that all people have within them, which resembles this eternity, this love, these things that we sometimes cannot explain and to lay. in a landscape or in a cross or in some flowers,” explains Baez, who presented his popular ceramic flower crosses and a black and white mural of a tree with pronounced roots and a large red beating heart.

For his part, the painter Daniel Morales presents a small series of paintings and drawings entitled The Opposite, the Complementary, based on abstract works in watercolor and portraits of the mother figures in his life. I explore the doubts I have about life and being by navigating and creating my own visual languages. “I’m just trying to kind of navigate through the doubts and concerns that come up in my life.” The artist also uses two colors, blue and orange.

“One of the interesting themes in these pieces is the experience of gender, and the social conventions of the use of color, blue corresponding to the male gender and pink to the female gender. I try to unfold those ideas a bit and on this occasion, for example, he presented shades of orange because they are complementary to blue on the color wheel.”

Andrea Guevara’s proposal included the series Kilos de vulnerability. “It’s a super heavy series, showing these ‘kilos’ of feelings and emotions that no one talks about openly,” he explained about his abstract pieces supplemented with plaster paste (the visual kilos) arranged in strips that resemble spirals and yellow veins , his favorite.

“These are my first abstract works, I wanted to launch myself into the world of abstract painting because it gives more honor to the feelings and emotions that you cannot express in numbers or words. Yellow represents me, it’s my color and even though there are very raw ideas, the essence is always there, shrouded in all the uncertainty, so that’s kind of what I wanted when mixing the yellow paint.”