Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins
In Gallery 2, Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca will present a major new sculptural installation:In the Forest Ruins.
The exhibition will develop Balseca’s longstanding interest in capitalist extractivism, reflecting on the financialization of nature and questioning our understanding of the world as living matter. Drawing connections between the Amazon Basin and Dundee, the exhibition will excavate layers of extractive legacies, inhabiting the space through new film works, installations, and sculptures. Balseca will undertake a Print Studio residency, working with experimental materials as active, living collaborators in the production of new work for the exhibition.
About Adrián Balseca
Born in Quito, Ecuador, 1989. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His work seeks to activate strategies of representation, narration, and/or interaction to highlight the ecosystemic specificities of particular territories. Through his artistic research, he examines various socio-environmental agendas within extractivist dynamics, exploring their relationship with the formation processes of modern nation-states in Latin America. Each project investigates how the colonial legacy continues to shape models of exploitation of nature and territory, addressing environmental issues within a global context. Recent exhibitions include: Colección MACBA. Preludio. Intención poética (MACBA, Barcelona, 2024); Nyctalopia (Void Art Centre, Derry, 2024); 55th Visions du Réel International Film Festival (Nyon, 2024); Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection (MCA Denver, Denver, 2024); ROUTING RUBBER (New York, 2024); The Genetically Altered Seed Breaks the Rhythm of an Earthly Music – Encounters over Several Plants (TATE Modern, London, 2022); Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art (Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2022); 34th São Paulo Biennial—Though it's dark, still I sing (Pavilion Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, 2021), among others.