MARIA ROSA JIJON
Ecuadorian artist Maria Rosa Jijón, will be doing a performance
/ interaction with the participation of migrants and migrant's-friendly
people, who want to send a message in a bottle.
Bring any plastic bottle, and write a wish that could express your opinion
on racism and prejudice against foreigners, or simply make a wish. The
more messages we put together, the better this action will function.
LHOW TO LOCATE
FRAGILE
Thousands of people are living outside their home countries, without the
possibility to speak or tell the others who they are, and what they want.
Temporary workers, immigrants, extra - communitarians, sans - papiers,
whatever name is given to foreigners, are not only working force, they
are culture, feelings, languages, families, thoughts, lives.
FOR EXPORT
We will put this bottles, sealed and anonymous, in front of the migration
office in Frankfurt as a silent action to defend all humans' right to
circulate as merchandise does, free of charge.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Maria Rosa Jijon , Quito Ecuador 1968,
did her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Central del Ecuador,
Faculty of Fine Arts; and post-graduate studies at Instituto Superior
de Arte, La Havana, Cuba (printmaking and theory), and Kungliga Konsthogskolan,
Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden (printmaking and computer
grahics). She has taught printmaking and silkscreen at Universidad Catolida
and Universidad San Francisco in Quito since 1994, until she moved to
Rome in may 2000.
At the moment lives and works in Rome, where she is developing multicultural
education programs, and her latest work Fratelli d'Italia, together with
CANDELARIA (Associazione Donne Immigrante , ONLUS) Women Immigrants' Association.
Her work has been exhibit at the III Biennale Iberoamericana Lima, 2002,
VI Biennale Internacional de Cuenca, Ecuador 1998, Fotofest 2000, Houston,
USA; Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000;
1ra Bienal Itinerante Arte Acontecimiento RAICES Cusco 2001, and in various
galleries in Stockholm, Bucharest, Madrid, Asunción, Buenos Aires,
Lima, Roma, Milano y and New York.
Maria Rosa Jijon, Quito/ Ecuador 1968. Realizó sus estudios
en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, hizo cursos
de especialización en el Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana,
Cuba; y completó su formación con un posgrado en la Kungliga
Konsthogskolan (Escuela Real de Artes) de Estocolmo, Suecia.
Desde 1994 hasta 2000, fue profesora de grabado y serigrafía en
las Universidades Católica y San Francisco, de Quito. Desde 1998
ha colaborado como coordinadora de proyectos del Centro Ecuatoriano de
Arte Contemporáneo, CEAC y como secretaria de la Asociación
de Grabadores del Ecuador.
Actualmente vive y trabaja en Roma, donde se ocupa de varios proyectos
de educacion multiculural y desarrolla su proyecto NOSOTRAS (presentado
en la Bienal) junto con la Asociación de mujeres inmigrantes, Candelaria.
Su obra ha sido expuesta en la III Biennale Iberoamericana Lima, 2002;VI
Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador 1998; Fotofest 2000,
Houston, USA; Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía, Buenos Aires Argentina
2000; 1ra Bienal Itinerante Arte Acontecimiento RAICES Cusco 2001, asi
como en varias galerias en Estocolmo, Bucarest, Madrid, Asunción,
Buenos Aires, Lima, Roma, Milano y Nueva York.
ARTIST'S
WEBSITE
CONTACT THE ARTIST
