Manifesto

Rosa Jijón

Rosa Jijón is an artist, activist and cultural mediator, former director of the CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito), CAC. She has participated in various international exhibitions (Venice Biennale, Havana Biennale, Cuenca Biennale, Bienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico) and international artistic residences including ARTEA, Residencia Sur Antarctica. She deals with human mobility and migration, citizenship, social and environmental justice, and has engaged in participatory art production with grassroots organizations and communities from migrant women, to Roma communities, indigenous peoples and street gangs. More recently engaged in heritage and cultural and environmental conservation together with Fundación Patrimonial 19-78.