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In her first solo exhibition in the Republic of Ecuador, Mexican artist Wendy Cabrera Rubio (Mexico City, 1995) proposes to address episodes of modern travel literature linked to the history of the country through a critical study of the visits of British biologist Charles Darwin and American writer Herman Melville to the Galapagos Islands in 1835 and 1841, respectively. Under the ominous title Bitácora Primera: la espalda innumerable del mar, the artist makes a select and attentive re-reading of these descriptions, which have been fundamental in the integration of the archipelago within the …