Disease Thrower 13 and 14
2021
Guadalupe Maravilla
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Guadalupe Maravilla
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied and undocumented children who arrived at the U.S. border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In recognition of her own migratory past, Maravilla grounds her practice in the historical and contemporary contexts of immigrant culture, particularly those belonging to Latinx communities.
Maravilla currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2019 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2015. She has exhibited and performed at major museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami and many more.
Program Participation
Emerging Artist Grant, 2015
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2021
Website / Social Links
I create new mythologies that take the form of real and fictional rituals based on my own lived experiences, including the trauma of crossing the border and my own battle with cancer. I explore the neurological consequences of migration through performance and object making, and have examined how genetic trauma manifests in the body over generations. Throughout the many teachings I have received about my healing process, one notion that kept coming back over and over again was that, if one cleanses properly, one will heal seven generations backward and seven generations forward.”
