Guadalupe Maravilla: Health and Border Politics
September 22, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
In this talk, Guadalupe Maravilla shares his sculpture and sound healing practice and its connection to his personal history, including a journey as an unaccompanied migrant and healing from cancer. Maravilla discusses his Disease Thrower series, large sculptural works incorporating gongs used for sound ceremonies for cancer and immigrant communities. He also explores his Retablo, Tripa Chuca series and the more recent sculpture Mariposa Relampago, a bus that was used to trace his migration journey from El Salvador to the US and was transformed into a large-scale vibrational healing instrument.
About the Speaker
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the US border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented and cancer communities. He has exhibited in museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and is a 2019 recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Photo by Zoe Salaun
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the US border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented and cancer communities. He has exhibited in museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and is a 2019 recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
