Reminiscencias confrontadas: la identidad nacional ecuatoriana y su disyuntiva frente a la crisis económica de 1999 en Ecuador

Abstract

Reminiscences or memories of those moments that changed the Ecuadorian´s lives become visible through an approach of our national identity and its development through of our history, since the first human settlements until the cruel slump of the latest years of the twentieth century. This episode caused many Ecuadorians leave their homes, looking for better opportunities in other countries from the “First World”. Nowadays, there is no certainty that national identity remains untouched, within influences, because we are inside an economic and cultural model that directs the thinking and acting ways of human beings. This model becomes a continuous paradox that shows opportunities, but also marginalization. Those facts allow the artist makes a plastic work for showing several thinkings about national identity in these times. Through an Art-video screening, several reflections arise around the question what means being Ecuadorian? Finally, a drawing becomes the graphic’s flag reinterpretation.