!HABLA! is an expression characteristic of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s bustling port-city. Within the fast-paced flow of street commerce, the phrase is spoken as a playful nod, an invitation, and a call ‘to talk’. For Guayaquileños, everything happens within this talk.
Through a series of lively visual scenarios that speak with the cultural rhythms and tensions of the port, Federico’s paintings re-animate the gregarious, yet often over-looked dialogues that figure Guayaquil.
FEDERICO AIRAUDO 