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By showing this richness, this dynamism, this variety of languages, I think we’re getting closer to what is actually happening outside the steps of the museum.“—Whitney curator Marcela Guerrero on the newly opened exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Learn more on whitney.org.
[Video by Colin Archdeacon]
In his performance, The OG of Undocumented Children, artist Guadalupe Maravilla continues his ongoing investigation of the displacement of Central American people. The artist himself crossed the US border when he was eight years old, escorted by a Coyote, or human trafficker, and a dog. To share his personal story, he enlists a cast of characters, including a troupe of Quinceañeras, two singers, an immigrant vampire family who drink the blood of Americans, and the Mexican gothic electro-drama band La Rubia te Besa. Drawing parallels between Mayan mythology and current events, Maravilla pursues a new visual language for border crossing stories.
Visitwhitney.org to more about the Maravilla’s work, on view in Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art.
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“I would love for someone to come into the Brooklyn Museum and see who I am, but also my ancestors and also my descendants,” says Guadalupe Maravilla.
Here, the artist is seen shaping a water-based adhesive around the metal frame of one of his “Disease Thrower” sculptures. The “Disease Throwers” are healing instruments, which Guadalupe began creating in 2018. The sculptures themselves have mouths, so to speak, in which a person can lie down and physically experience the vibrations from the gong that hangs on the end of the structure.
You can see this feature in its full-length at #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fDeXiY72AuU
Courtesy of Mindscapes. Mindscapes is initiated by Wellcome Trust, a London-based global charitable health research foundation supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. The two year-long program is a partnership with museums around the world.
This Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm, we will be joined by Guadalupe Maravilla, Lady Quesa, and Pastor Juan Carlos Ruiz for an exciting #BkMTalks on art, healing, and immigrant communities.
️ Guadalupe Maravilla, artist dedicated to healing through sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance whose work is currently on view in “Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven”
✨ Lady Quesa, staple of the Brooklyn drag scene, regularly hosts the Yas Mama party at C’mon Everybody, and is supervisor of arts programming at youth development organization The Door
⛪ Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bay Ridge and, during the pandemic, collaborated frequently with Maravilla on mutual aid efforts including food distribution and sound baths
This program will include ASL and Spanish interpretation. Tickets are $16 ($14 for Members) and include after-hours access to #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM.
NW PEN. Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven.
Guadalupe Maravilla dedicates his artistic practice to healing. Through a combination of sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance, his work offers a sense of grounding as a result of his own displacement from El Salvador’s civil war as well as helping to combat residual pain from surviving stage-three cancer.
The Healing Room, co-organized by the Museum’s teen staff in art education, guests can expect to be immersed in a sound bath of Maravilla’s own making, which merges vibrations and frequencies of gongs to release toxins in the body.
We’re excited to welcome you to visit and reflect on what personal and collective care means to you in this exhibition that explores transformation, migration, play, identity, and grief.
Learn more about #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM and plan your visit here.
Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)
On May 10 at 3 pm, our Verbal Description Tour will explore communal healing and learn about Guadalupe Maravilla’s personal story of migration, illness, and recovery in #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM. Pictured here is one of the artists Disease Throwers, adorned with objects collected from a ritual of retracing the artist’s original migration route from El Salvador.
Blind individuals and folks with low vision are invited to join us for this free, virtual event. We only ask that you register in advance, as space is limited.
Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)
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Teen Night: Art of Healing
In these troubling times where it feels like you can never get a break or have a place to just breathe, this Teen Night offers you just that. Join us Friday April 29 at 5–7:30pm for a soul-enticing experience.
What to Know
Brought to you by BkM Teens and inspired by Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Jovenand Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive, this evening is focused on the Art of Healing.
Explore these two artists’ work and how they integrate their culture, community and personal spiritual awakenings. Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven features new sculptures, retablo paintings, tripa chuca drawings, and sound works, as well as a Healing Room, a community space for collective care designed by teen staff. Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive displays rich and multilayered sculptures, installations, collages, drawings, photographs, textiles, and a video in which Khan investigates othering, surveillance, cultural exploitation, anti-blackness, and xenophobia within our public and private spaces.
What to Expect
First we’ll have “What is Healing? A Community Discussion” with artists and healers Charlie L'Strange and The Brooklyn Bruja. Then, throughout the night you can take cute photos in our photo booth, create your own mood board surrounding the themes of healing, decorate candles in connection with the colors associated with the 7 chakras (which are the main energy points of the body), and lastly taking inspiration from Guadalupe Maravilla’s exhibition, play the Tripa Chuca game!
Of course we can’t end a Teen Night without a dance party and performers! We will be having SHAMIQUA serenading us through her magical voice, an open mic, and UPTWN spitting fire bars of rhyme and rhythm through rap. Lastly, we’ll have DJ SYNCHRO setting the vibe throughout the night!
This program is free, open to all youth ages 14-22, and to register click here.
Art of Healing is organized by the Teen Night Planning Committee, our paid teen internship in public programming.
Posted by Shanice Baptise-Peters, Senior Teen Night Planning Committee member.
