Join artist Guadalupe Maravilla and MoMA Scholar in Residence C. Ondine Chavoya for a screening of Maravilla’s new film Mariposa Relámpago, followed by a conversation on themes of healing and migration.
Mariposa Relámpago (29 min.) chronicles the journey of Guadalupe Maravilla’s sculpture of the same name. Following the sculpture’s transformation from school bus to healing instrument, the film features the work’s migration across multiple international borders, its blessing inside a volcano, the involvement of the FBI, and its future as described by a Tarot card reader.
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C. Ondine Chavoya holds a John D. Murchison Regents Professorship in Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. A specialist in Chicanx and Latinx art, Chavoya is co-editor of Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (2019). From 2002 to 2022, Chavoya was a professor of art history and Latinx studies at Williams College, where he was a cofounder of the interdisciplinary program in Latinx studies. Prior to Williams, Chavoya taught contemporary art and visual culture at RISD and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Chavoya is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied art history and comparative literature, and the University of Rochester (PhD, 2002). Chavoya’s curatorial projects have addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation, social justice, and archival practices in contemporary art. Previous exhibitions include Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other Scenes (with Lisa Dorin, 2004), Asco: Elite of the Obscure (with Rita Gonzalez, 2011), Robert Rauschenberg: Autobiography (with Lisa Dorin, 2017), and Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. (with David Evans Frantz, 2017). The exhibition catalogue for Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. (2017) garnered nine international book awards, including a 2018 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). Chavoya has reunited with curator David Evans Frantz to develop Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, an exhibition co-organized with the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Independent Curators International, which opened in fall 2023.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s work is now on view in Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana at P·P·O·W, New York, through April 6. Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla (b. 1976) grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied, undocumented migration to the United States due to the Salvadoran Civil War. Across all media, Maravilla explores how the systemic abuse of immigrants physically manifests in the body, reflecting on his own battle with cancer. Maravilla received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Hunter College in New York. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space, a MAP Fund Grant, the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Fellowship, a Creative Capital Grant, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award. He has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA; the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; P·P·O·W, New York; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions such as uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial; soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale; Drum Listens to Heart, Part III, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, among others. Maravilla’s work is currently included in the 12th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art: forms of the surrounding futures, and the 35th Bienal De São Paulo: choreographies of the impossible.
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