Adrián Balseca

Adrián Balseca’s project 'The Observatory of Progress' brings attention to the life of migrant birds in the city, to urban overdevelopment, and global climate change. In October 2019 he produced a publication "Observatory of Progress: Report No. 1" based on these global and local issues.

Biography

Adrián Balseca (b. 1989) lives and works in Quito, Ecuador. Balseca works between photography, installation and film to activate strategies and discussions of representation, narration, and/or interaction in order to highlight the specificities of ecosystems in a particular territory. Balseca’s artistic research engages with several socialenvironmental agendas and in particular with historical-economic processes, and their links to globally relevant environmental issues.

For osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 , Balseca produced a publication in October 2019, that through sketches, drawings and images looks at shifts in the migration patterns of birds and its direct relation to changes in Oslo's infrastructure and the global climate.

Adrián Balseca Foto: Kyrre Lien
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