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Thu, Nov 7, 2024 5:30pm–7:00pm

Artist talk with Guadalupe Maravilla: Sound As Medicine

Thu, Nov 7, 2024
5:30pm–7:00pm
Historic Theater

The Penny Stamps Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor to conduct weekly public lectures and engagements.

Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation,  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.

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA.

More About Guadalupe Maravilla

Maravilla is an artist, teacher and mutual-aid organizer; his work extends beyond his sculptural practice to consider forms of community-based healing and regeneration. He frequently activates his artistic objects through performances and sound baths – a meditative experience where participants are “bathed” in sound frequencies meant to encourage therapeutic and restorative healing.

Maravilla’s work is in the permanent collections of many global museums including the Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, among others. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2019. Maravilla’s work is currently included in the 12th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art: forms of the surrounding futures, Gothenburg, Sweden and the 35th Bienal De São Paulo: choreographies of the impossible, São Paulo, Brazil.