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Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven brings together contemporary works by the artist and related Mayan objects from our Museum collection.

“Many of these objects are whistles or instruments that were used in rituals, including conchs—they cut off the tips and you can blow into them,” said Maravilla. “Conchs are considered some of the most powerful healing instruments in Latin America. I made the nearby wall pieces with conch shells as ‘speakers,’ amplifying their connection to sound.”

In addition to conch shells, figurative, ceramic whistles have been found throughout Maya territories, many of them visually and musically complex. The xoloitzcuintli—the type of dog represented in this whistle—represents a guardian of the underworld known as Xibalba, a place of transcendence and a necessary journey on the path to rebirth. Imagery like this, and the frequent presence of instruments at burial sites has led scholars to believe that sound had a powerful religious connotation, not unlike Maravilla’s work with sound as a healing tool. #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM

📷 Mayan artist. Whistle, 300-800. Ceramic, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Leonardo Patterson, 69.170.1. → Mayan artist. Conch Shell Trumpet, 250-850. Conch shell, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 35.1486.

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Guadalupe Maravilla cites Mayan art as a primary influence dating back to his childhood in El Salvador. Exploring temples and ruins were his main exposure to art in a country affected by civil war. “I learned a lot about their rituals and their art, and I made up my own cosmology from that; my own world, inspired by my ancestors.”⁠ ⁠ “Maize God Emerging from a Flower”, from our collection, represents the rebirth of a fertility deity following a journey through the underworld, known as Xibalba. Waterlilies, which grow from dark, murky water, were seen as a conduit to Xibalba. Similarly, the Muan bird depicted in the center of this “Tripod Plate” was understood as a messenger between our world and that of the dead. Themes of rebirth and transcendence continue to resonate in Maravilla’s work. ⁠ ⁠ The artist highlights, “a lot of the heroes and creation myths of Maya mythology involve journeys of traveling through the underworld, coming from a dark place [like the mouth of a monster] to acquire a type of enlightenment or healing.” #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM

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📷 Mayan artist. Tripod Plate, ca. 593-731. Ceramic, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 39.57. → Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Mayan artist. Maize God Emerging from a Flower, 600-900. Ceramic, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 70.31.

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Closing Soon… Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven. This exhibition grows out of the artist’s personal story of migration, illness, trauma, and healing.

Disease Thrower #0, shown here, is different from the other Disease Throwers. Abiding by a different numbering system that Maravilla devised, #0 pays homage to the Maya, who were among the first to develop the numeral 0 in mathematics.

Learn more about #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM and plan your visit through September 18.

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📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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How are you healing? Thanks to the teen staff in Work-Study: Art & Healing (the Museum’s paid teen internship in art education) who collaborated with Guadalupe Maravilla, we have a thoughtful Healing Room as part of “Tierra Blanca Joven.” 

This intergenerational community space for restoration and well-being, invites visitors to reflect on personal and collective care. Elements from the exhibition, like tripa chuca drawings, portraits, and masks, are incorporated into the design to continue reflecting on themes of transformation, migration, play, identity, and grief.

You are welcome to engage with the objects and environment at your own pace or just enjoy a sound bath recorded by Guadalupe Maravilla, which offers a meditative experience for all who enter. #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM

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📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Large-scale sculptures called Disease Throwers anchor Guadalupe Maravilla’s Tierra Blanca Joven exhibition; this one welcomes visitors to the gallery. Maravilla said, “I was thinking a lot about my Maya ancestors and their gods and deities, which are monster-like and powerful… I wanted a name that was fierce—something menacing, but that also suggests a protector, something on our side.”

The artist designed these sculptures as healing tools incorporating both fearsome elements—like the fang-like structures at the middle and the spider at the front—as well as references to sound—like the gong at the back and conch shells. Surrounding this sculpture are smaller, Mayan-inspired sculptures in volcanic stone representing body parts one might want to heal. 

Learn more about #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM and plan your visit: https://bit.ly/guadalupemaravillabkm

📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Guadalupe Maravilla has adorned columns in “Tierra Blanca Joven” with drawings inspired by the childrens’ game “Tripa Chuca” (translation: dirty guts). He describes it as: “a game for two players, who write two sets of the numerals 1 to 20 placed randomly on a piece of paper. One player takes the odd numbers; the other the even. They then take turns drawing a line to connect the same number in sequence from 1 to 20, without touching any other numbers or lines. At some point, whoever touches the line loses the game.”

The game is popular in El Salvador where Maravilla learned it as a child. It then became an important way to pass the time on as well as a metaphor for his two and a half month journey to the United States. “I had a little notebook and I would play with everybody along the way, with other kids and some adults. … Just like the [patterns created by] game, migration is the same way.”

Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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“I was always interested in sound, but I didn’t know the power of sound and how sound is medicine,” Guadalupe Maravilla says as he activates the gongs connected to his Disease Thrower sculptures. 

Maravilla shows us that there’s something to be gleaned from every life experience. As a result of his cancer diagnosis, Maravilla found healing in sound, which is prevalent throughout #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM. Find some solace of your own with a trip to the exhibition. 

🎥 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, including: @moriartmuseum @gropiusbau @mapbangalore

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“I didn’t grow up with many contemporary artistic influences—from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, there was virtually no cultural growth in El Salvador because of the impact of the civil war,” says Guadalupe Maravilla. “Instead, ancient Maya art has been tremendously impactful to my practice as an artist and a healer.”

Learn more about #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM, which integrates objects from the Museum’s Maya art collection, and plan your visit: https://bit.ly/guadalupemaravillabkm

📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Guadalupe Maravilla met Daniel Vilchis, a Mexico City-based artist from a family of retablo painters, as Maravilla was retracing the journey that brought him from El Salvador, though Mexico, to the United States. The two soon became collaborators, primarily creating retablos.

Retablos are important and accessible religious objects in much of Latin America and are especially popular in Mexico. Dedicated to Catholic figures like Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and various saints, these paintings are most often commissioned by the faithful to give thanks for miraculous occurrences, like triumph over hardship or salvation from tragedy.

“When I originally met Daniel, I commissioned a painting from him and gave him complete aesthetic control: I told him about my border crossing and he made a painting about it,” said Maravilla. “After that, I decided that I wanted my own aesthetic decisions to be part of the work, so I started photoshopping and collaging images digitally and he replicates them. Our collaboration consists of hundreds of messages on WhatsApp—where we go over every small detail of every retablo painting—and is part of my interest in supporting micro-economies.”

📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Healing machines. It’s a phrase Guadalupe Maravilla uses to describe the Disease Throwers, which are displayed in “Tierra Blanca Joven.” Here, Guadalupe explains the purpose and properties of this sculpture series, including the skin of Disease Thrower #0, which is made from ash and coal from fires that accompanied sound baths he hosted at Socrates Sculpture Park during the summer of 2021.

See the sculpture series in-person as part of #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM through September 18.

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🎥 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.

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“During the pandemic, healing has become a commodity and I feel there’s a certain danger to that,” says Guadalupe Maravilla. “I feel healing should be free for everyone.”

In the newest episode of Reclaimed, our series focused on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience, we spoke with Guadalupe about his displacement from his native El Salvador as a child, finding the right vibrations in objects used for healing, and how he roots his actions and work in intention. 

Watch the full interview with Guadalupe and experience #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM through September 18.

🎥 https://youtu.be/O58aOpvIv-0

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The Saturday state-of-mind starts now. 🌤️✌️

Where ever your weekend takes you, enjoy it! See what's currently on view and which events are on the schedule at the link below. Don't forget to share your favorite museum moments with us by using #MyBkM.

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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.

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📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Guadalupe Maravilla titled his exhibition “Tierra Blanca Joven,” which literally means “a young white ash/earth.” In the fifth century c.e., the Maya people were forced out of the region by the enormous Tierra Blanca Joven volcano eruption (now Lake Ilopango), which deposited a thick layer of ash over the land.

In Maravilla’s lifetime, the people of the Maya region have suffered repeated displacements due to eruptions of violence, from the Salvadoran civil war that lasted from 1979 to 1992 to the many Central American refugees today who are held in detention centers in the United States. Through sculpture, sound, and performance, as well as the artist’s selection of Maya works from the Museum’s collection, Maravilla evokes an intergenerational continuum of displacement among the people of El Salvador to create space for healing and care.

Come experience #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM through September 18.

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📷 Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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We all do weekends differently. Whether you like no agenda or a little itinerary, we’ve got you covered. Find fun ways, like these, to fill your time with us:

👉 Excellent exhibitions including #WarholRevelation, #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM, and can’t-miss installations of our collection

👉 Pop-Up Market on the Plaza, Sundays at 10:30 am

👉 Come see the @bklynsymphony on Sunday at 2 pm

Enjoy your weekend, everyone, and share your visit to the Museum with us by using #MyBkM. Get added information on these events and what’s currently on view: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

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Rain or shine, we have all the makings of a good time. 

From #WarholRevelation to #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM, and unique activations of our collection that will transport you to nineteenth century Europe and ancient Egypt, escape the weather and let’s experience art together.

For those of you joining us for #FirstSaturdaysBkM, please remember that admission is subject to capacity at the time of arrival.⁠ While proof of vaccination is no longer required at the Museum, staff and visitors aged two and older can help us take care of one another by continuing to wear masks.

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