What do you think: can art be healing?
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla describes his sculptures as “healing instruments,” but they don’t look so benevolent when you first encounter them. They look fierce, like monsters or aliens, or perhaps some mythical animals who have swallowed up all objects in their path and now hold them in their exposed innards.Guadalupe Maravilla’s exhibit continues through Aug. 28 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St.
And in a similar way, Maravilla himself is posited throughout the show as both an artist and a shaman, the holder of knowledge and experience that can benefit others. The MCA will host two of his ceremonies on July 16 and 17. The artist, now in his mid-40s, immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in the 1980s as part of an early wave of undocumented children to arrive from Latin America. Three decades later, these waves continue of course, and media reports are full of troubling images of desperate, yet shockingly brave, young people who risk it all to make the journey north, only to be greeted by rejection, incarceration or deportation.
It also creates work for visitors to the MCA. How do we consume these objects? As sacred or secular, playful or somber, artifacts or totems? The first is a mural that the artist applied directly to the wall at the MCA. As the accompanying text explains, it is based on the children’s game tripa chuca, where each player must draw lines on paper than can never cross, and the mural is a series of paint marker lines and images that have the appearance of a two-dimensional labyrinth.
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