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STARDUST<\/div>\n
Isadora Romero, Ecuador<\/div>\n

In Mascarilla, in the Valle del Chota in Ecuador, the landscape becomes rocky, lunar, galactic. Weightless tornados form, carrying messages and whispers of both recent and ancient stories. Legends that grandmothers tell, that have been conveyed through music and song since the dawn of time, from the place known as the \u201cValley of Blood and Death,\u201d since our ancestors came here after leaving behind Africa\u2019s distant shores. Stories that explain the world, love, and death, that inspire fear and describe secretive traditions.<\/p>\n

It is the women who anonymously make the town survive. They give birth to the stars and take care of them. The stellar orbs take shelter in the night and float about. If people run into one of them, they will forever lose their human form. They will turn to dust, the dust we are all made of: stardust.<\/p>\n

This long-term project contains images that reinterpret the intangible heritage of the African-Ecuadorian community of the highlands. It represents the day-to-day life of a people through symbols drawn from the oral history recited by the region\u2019s inhabitants. It is a celebration of the imaginary space of a community that dreams, as all communities do.<\/p>\n

Isadora Romero<\/p>\n

ISADORA ROMERO<\/div>\n
(b. 1987) Quito, Ecuador<\/div>\n

A photographer and filmmaker, Isadora Romero explores the frontiers of the image between fiction and reality. Her work focuses on forms of human self-representation, oral memory, and the role played by women in non-official historical narratives. In 2017 Romero was awarded the Premio Fotoperiodismo por la Paz \u201cJuan Antonio Serrano\u201d and was a finalist for the Inge Morath Award of the Magnum Foundation, as well as being nominated for the Premio Brazil-Arte Emergente. In collaboration with Misha Vallejo she has published the book Siete punto ocho<\/i> (RM, 2018), which gathers testimonies of survivors of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. She is currently a member of the Women Photograph initiative and contributes to the Instagram account @everydayecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}