Acrílico sobre lienzo / Acrylic on canvas
120x 80 cm. / 48 x 30 inches
Animating the contradictions of human-animal relations in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, “Playa Dorada” experiments with themes of arrival, domestication, and the question of what it means to be human. The painting satirically exaggerates ‘the show’ of luxury experience, within an uncanny ecosystem of multi-species exchanges.
The piece poses a jam-packed visual scenario and winding storylines that require an ongoing and iterative viewing – tasking us with the visual labor of following a crowded constellation of intersecting characters. Through its busyness, the painting insists that viewers look beyond the individual acting in isolation by bringing place-specific details into view within a broader social and cultural context.
SOLD
FEDERICO AIRAUDO 