Paula Proaño Mesías

  1. A Thousand Eyes Beneath the Tide
  2. The Llama That Kindles the Wetland
  3. Pulverizing the World, but Also Spiritualizing Its Dust
  4. May the Illusion Be Nourished by the Whisper of the Wind, Not by the Sedative Modern Spell
  5. On Trans-Spirit, Technobodies and the Family of Tukã
  6. Chimeras
  7. Hyperbeccus (On Transhuman Artifacts)
  8. Grecia (On Repair Mechanisms)
  9. Elizabeth (On Surgical Musical Instruments)
  10. Tukã (On Domestication Devices)
  11. Íyi (On Mystical and Sacred Objects)
  12. Translucent Matter
  13. Studies on Zoo-Physiologic Modification: Grecia
  14. Untitled
  15. Sustenance

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P002 → The Llama That Kindles the Wetland



‘The Llama That Kindles the Wetland’ (2025) is a film installation that unfolds as a temporal and spatial braid—at once rooted in the Andean highlands and unfixed in time in the lead-up to a local Llamingada—a race honoring World Wetlands Day organized by the communities Sacha and Cumbijín, adjacent to the Llanganates National Park—the film resists linear storytelling. It moves forward, then backwards, and then further back still. It never stops happening. It simply shifts.

‘The Llama That Kindles the Wetland’, 2025, Film instalaltion, Single-channel projection, S 16mm film, 13’33’’.
Installation view, Museo Interactivo de Ciencia (MIC), Quito, 2025.


Installation view, Museo Interactivo de Ciencia (MIC), Quito, 2025.

‘Pukyu Llamingu II (Summoning Breath II)’ Installation view, MIC, Quito, 2025. Burnished ceramic transverse whistle, glass, spinning machine from the former La Industrial factory, llama hair.

Photos: David Jara


‘The Llama That Kindles the Wetland’, 2025, Film still, S 16mm film, 13’33’’.