With bags stuffed and other essentials acquired - everything is marked up in Galapagos owing to its remote nature - we rubbed elbows with the local vegetarian quiteños at Ari and partook of the set lunch: corn soup followed by a mix of healthy vegetables with 'carne vegetal' and llapingachos (potato cakes).
Llapingachos |
Nourishment for the soul in the afternoon came courtesy of the small gallery inside the former home of Camilo Egas - the 'first' indigenous painter in Ecuador.
Egas' works depicting indigenous dance and celebrations were warm and aesthetically pleasing, but his later style - drawing from abstract pieces by European artists - left me cold.
We side-stepped the gathering crowds of police - presumably preparing for further demonstrations by the anti-Correa protestors - and went for a final drink at Bandido Brewing.
Keeping out of trouble |
This evening saw the final MIVA showcase and the now familiar improvisational display by the staff-cum-performers was no less bizarre than yesterday's.
I have no idea any more |
The video shorts threw up examples at either end of the scale. The event started with an interminable piece by Alex Schlenker of his wife cavorting in their bathroom - filmed from two orthogonal angles - which almost had me walking out. I was glad I stayed, as the following pieces were of much higher quality and contained amongst them a sublimely original, bizarre and macabre piece of claymation by Allison Schulnik, called Eager.
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