"Territorios del retorno: el abrazo en la mitad del mundo" is a group exhibition of Ecuadorian artists that opened on November 9 at the Consulate of Ecuador in Miami, with the collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA).
This is a joint initiative of the diplomatic representation, the Doral International Art Fair (DIAF) and the Cuenca Biennial. The project was conceived as a space for encounter between Ecuador and its communities abroad, taking return, memory and the sense of belonging as axes of reflection.
From its very title, the exhibition evokes the embrace as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation between those who remain in their territory of origin and those who, for different circumstances, have built their lives outside of it, proposing art as a language capable of bringing together geographies, experiences and identities.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA Florida) has been strengthening its ties with the Ecuadorian artistic community through a policy of international collaboration and exchange, aimed at fostering the circulation of its creators and dialogue with other Latin American art scenes.
Within this rapprochement, its relationship with the NOMADE Biennial stands out in particular, an independent and itinerant platform founded by Ecuadorian critic and curator Hernán Pacurucu and Chilean artist Víctor Hugo Bravo.
Likewise, the exchange has extended to the field of curatorial thought and institutional reflection, consolidating the museum as a space for encounter and international projection for the artistic practices of Ecuador.
