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X Biennial: Parallel Exhibition: Intersections: Memory, Reality and New Eras. October 22 – December 4, 2009. Cuenca, Ecuador.
Rebeca’s video art installations in the exhibition are: At Any Given Moment, Grass and At Any Given Moment, Rivers and Fall.
The Cuenca Biennial arrives at its tenth edition, having passed the 20-year mark of its existence in 2007, just when the ninth edition was being held. Along with Sao Paulo, Havana, and now the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, the Cuenca Biennial, with a greater stability in its administration at the present time, belongs to a select group of macro events established in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Situated in the lower elevations of the Andean mountain system, in the province of Azuay, Cuenca, declared a world cultural heritage in 1999, is a small, almost always pleasant city of colonial background, with a marked religious tradition. In its way, it personifies the destiny of post-modernity in its space-time hybridization, in the lack of definition with which the city juxtaposes postmodern and modern progressions, heritages, structures and social components of different eras; a lower enclave, that proportionately grows without doing violence to the basic functional structures, nor to the surrounding topographic characteristics, that have a particular role in its history, its memories and its current state of affairs – an urban center on the periphery, compared to Quito’s character as a capital city or the economic power of Guayaquil. It is the “tourism showcase” of a region that nevertheless generates an important volume of the Ecuadorian migratory exodus.
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