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Ekeko
by: Cecilia Elguero

Feb 1 - Feb 29

Ekeko is a playful exploration of the relationship between the creative process and the ability to bestow an object with meaning and the power to heal. Through this process Ekeko seeks to remind and reawaken in participants that part of the self that is able to imagine and create worlds and characters with powers that transcend the limitations of reality.

Ekeko is an interactive installation where participants create an amulet with scraps of different materials. Their makers then place the amulets in a sculptural piece. The piece will house them until the end of a three-month period. A closing show for the project will mark the end of this period, at which the amulet's powers will be awaken. The process of awaking the amulets' power will be realized by a video composition projected upon the sculptural piece that houses them and a live sound landscape.

Ekeko will be an ongoing installation. The center piece will be a web of cocoon-like structures made out of yarn and placed on a piece of plywood. The plywood could be attached to a wall or hung from the ceiling. The cocoon-like structures will make up the shape of a swan and will also house the amulets for the duration of the installation. The materials provided to the participants include, but are not limited to: scraps of paper, yarn, fabric, wood, thread, ribbons, glue, and small ceramic beads. These materials will be replaced every two weeks with ones of different colors and forms in order to create a visual representation of the connection between the forms of the amulets and when they were created during the life span of the installation.

Ekeko will welcome participants with a brief explanation of the project and a stepwise process of how to make the amulets.

Ekeko is named after an ancient Folkloric deity of the Inca empire (now known as Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina) who brings prosperity and fertility to its bearer.

Cecilia Elguero

Cecilia Elguero was born in Argentina, where she spent most of her formative years. As an only child, she loved creating little worlds in the her back yard out of leaves, flowers, plastic jewelry, rocks, insects and anything else she could find. She has studied music since an early age and started composing in 1997. Her interest in electronically treated sounds took her to Mills College where she received her BFA in Intermedia Arts. It was there that her curiosity for video and plastic arts was cultivated. She lives in Oakland, California with her boyfriend and collaborator Bret Winans and their cat Nico. Together they run an art space in downtown Oakland called Fake Cake Gallery where they showcase artists from the Bay Area. Cecilia’s video and installation work has been featured at Soma Arts, The Illuminated Corridor, Rock Paper Scissors, Mama Buzz Café, the Luggage Store Gallery and the Lobot Gallery. In her work, she continues to explore the shaping and crafting of space and objects to create little worlds that she can share with others.