The goal of “Quito Design Week” was to position Ecuadorian Design in a global context where it has been “marginal” at best. Through an exhibition and a week-long series of workshops and lectures, our team aimed to create a space to elevate Ecuadorian art + design. We hoped to inspire creatives to use their brilliant designa as agents of change.

“Within us all is grief for what is happening to our world…That’s because I belong. That’s because I am part of the sacred living body of Earth.” •⁠ ⁠Johana Macy

Justyna Kisielewicz confronts the legacies of colonialism and our shared pursuit of freedom in Living Space, her most ambitious exhibition to date. According to the artist, the work “explores Polish history within the context of multiple sites of global oppression, including the colonial project in the Americas and our current climate crisis.” Her kaleidoscopic, atemporal oil paintings weave together disparate historical periods, lush Florida vegetation, a pantheon of symboli