ABOUT ME
LA LINEA / ANTARCTICA 2013
Ecuadorian artist, activist and cultural promoter working with photo, time–based media, sound and public interventions.
Did studies in Ecuador, Cuba and Sweden.
Live and work between Italy and Ecuador.
Jijón’s work deals with human mobility in migratory contexts, geopolitics, territories, borders, hence it is based on mutual exchange and collaboration with grassroots groups and organizations. Ambsassador or Third Paradise, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Cittadellarte Foundation; co-curator at CEROINSPIRACION arte+residencias, artist-run space in Quito, Ecuador. Has also taken part in filmmaking projects regarding foreign communities in Italy, Roma children, youth street organizations, and the UN Women Campaign, Women’s Letters (cartas de mujeres), against gender violence.
Co – founder A4C Artsforthecommons collective platform regarding contemporary art and activisms with Francesco Martone.
Individual and group international exhibitions: 16th Cuenca Biennale, 2023, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, 2022; Winner of BNL Media Festival, Rome, 2016; IV Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Valparaiso, La Plata, 2014-2015; 54th Venice Biennale, 10th Cuenca Biennale, October 2010; 10th Havana Biennale, March 2009; Archivo Sur, Futura Cultural Center, Prague, 2008, XI Freewaves Festival L.A, 2008; Loop Festival Barcelona, 2008, Salón Mariano Aguilera 2007, Quito, SIART Bienal, Bolivia, 2007; Art Bus, Arco Madrid, 2007; III IDB Video Art Biennale, Washington, USA, 2006; Prague Biennale 2, 2005; I Trienal Poligrafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico 2004 ; III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte, Lima 2003; fotoGrafia I & 2 Festival di Fotografia di Roma 2003 & 2004; Mujeres en la Plástica Ecuatoriana Casa de América, Madrid 2001; Mis Mujeres Galería Arte X Arte, Buenos Aires 2000 Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia; Art Wired International Fotofest 2000, Houston,T.X.; Contemporary Ecuadorian Photography, The Camera Club of New York, 1999 and VI & VIII Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca, Ecuador, 1998 and 2004.
Outstanding video productions: Cartas de Mujeres, 30 min 2012, LK 360, 85min, Latin Kings transformation path 2010; La Polverera, 30min (10th Freewaves Festival L.A. NY Independent Film Festival); Tudo (III IDB Video Art Biennale, Washington D.C.), and G2, Forte e Chiaro (Loud and Clear); Paradoja Manta Manaos, Venice Biennale 2011.
Rosa Jijón 