Ecuador 2026

Title: TAWNA & Oscar
Commissioner: Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art (MAAC)
Curator: Manuela Moscoso
Exhibitors: TAWNA collective, Oscar Santillán

Featuring the Tawna collective and Óscar Santillán, the project approaches art as a practice of attention. The exhibition brings together these two contemporary practices to present ways of thinking and making the world through relation. The pavilion is conceived as a space of attention and listening that invites visitors to engage with forms of knowledge often overlooked within dominant cultural frameworks.

The project emerges from Andean-Amazonian territories marked by linguistic, cultural, and ecological plurality. The Tawna collective’s practice is rooted in Pan-Amazonian thinking, where existence is an active continuity among bodies, territories, and forces. Óscar Santillán’s practice explores conditions that escape dominant systems of order, moving across science, emerging technologies, and ancestral knowledge. Rather than aiming for synthesis, the encounter between these practices sustains an open space where different ways of inhabiting the world coexist.