MUSEUMS: Guadalupe Maravilla’s ‘Requiem For My Border Crossing’
Whitney Museum of American Art
09.24.2018“What I’ve been doing for the last couple of years is I’ve been working on mapping my own route that I crossed as an eight-year-old kid. I was the first wave of undocumented children that came over in 1984, escaping the civil war in El Salvador.” —Guadalupe Maravilla
Driving home both the timeliness and timelessness of the Whitney’s exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, in this video artist Maravilla, and curator Marcela Guerrero discuss the ancient inspiration and real-life origins of Maravilla’s project for the show – his experience as an undocumented child coming to the United States via coyotes in 1984. The exhibition runs until September 30, 2018.