Exhibition @ Piksel Studio 207
Daniela Moreno Wray
Transmestizx VR emerged from interspecies trans and technology as tools for invoking interculturalities, decoding implanted memories, thinking about diverse identities. This invocation and its aesthetic of visible stitching and digital glitches functions as a portal or crevasse through which other worlds appear, created or dreamed.
The process began with an invitation to a number of Ecuadorian artists* to think together about “trans” as a possibility for challenging the homogeneity of national discourse about mestizaje and opening it up beyond and after the human; about bodies and territories, sexualities and identities; about the resistance of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and their contribution to the transformation of a uninational state to one that is plurinational and intercultural; about art and the creation of imaginaries that, in turn, make worlds.
Then, during a 3 day residence in Cayambe, Ecuador, the artists created their own transmestizx beings which then met in this circular dance on the equatorial line, synthesis of a cosmovision based on relations between the diversity of beings, human and non-human, and reciprocity with the earth and the cosmos.
* José Luis Macas, Pamela Suasti, Mauricio Proaño, Pedro Soler, Alegría Mateljan, Paula Proaño Barriga, Manai Kowii, Falco, Andrea Moreno Wray, Coca y Mota, Daniela Moreno Wray, Lucía Romero, David Samaniego, María Emilia Escudero, Ariadna Vargas, Mateo Barriga.
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Daniela Moreno Wray
http://dmw.hotglue.meIndependent artist and filmmaker. Member of Upayakuwasi collective and La Divina Papaya, Ecuador.
Daniela Moreno Wray (1982) studied photography in Quito, theatre at the CAL School for Scenic Arts in Río de Janeiro (Brasil), cinema in the Centre for Cinematographic Investigation in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and a diploma in Creative Documentary at the Universidad de la Valle (Cali-Colombia). While she continued working in the production of documentaries, she carried out an investigation into culinary culture, “The Kitchen of the Peoples” (winner of a grant from the Ministry of Culture in Ecuador 2012) which lead to the co-founding of La Divina Papaya, rural producer of artisanal and organic products. She was awarded the Mariano Aguilera prize in 2016 for the interactive installation Transmestizx and grants in 2015 from Ibermedia and CNCine and again in 2017 from Ibermedia for her documentary project “El Elefante Dormido”. She recently co-directed the documentary “Aqui estoy otra vez” about the artist Pablo Barriga shown in edocs, Quito, 2017.