When Guayaquil Becomes Giant and Violence Gives a Truce to Fun

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One morning in December, José Salas finished the Two Fridas. They are five meters high and are built with the materials dictated by the tradition of giant monkeys: a quintal of paper, 60 cardboard plates, half a quintal of starch, about 40 strips of wood and several liters of paint. Inspired by the famous self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, the figures have the hearts exposed, under the stormy sky of the beginning of the guayaquileno winter. For Salas…