N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present Visiones de un Pueblo Fantasma by Ecuadorian painter Jean Carlo Guizado at its Guayaquil location.
Guizado proposes scenes that are at once familiar and strange, where our sense of wonder, affections, and fears are negotiated. The furnishings absorb histories, becoming repositories for new images; the line between subject and object is blurred, leaving only narratives that persist almost by natural selection. What emerges is an immaterial, disembodied evolution, marked by Shintoist references to a latent animism.
In the most abstract sense, Guizado observes symbolic containers whose absence draws memory and imagination into orbit. These are spaces of spectral magnetism—spectral in two senses: first, as apparition or presence; and second, as the range of possible perceptions (for example, the spectrum of visible light). Through an anthropological lens, Guizado transforms the local fictions that envelop a community, engaging the collective dimension of inherited narratives and their potential as experiences beyond factuality. It is here that the artist immerses himself, not in an effort to assert truths, but rather by embracing fiction as the primordial state of reality—two sides of the same coin.