Artist

Guadalupe Maravilla

2024

  • Rowan Renee

b. 1976 in San Salvador, Salvador. Lives and works in New York, USA.

Biography

Using a wide variety of media, Guadalupe Maravilla's work explores his personal experience of migration and sickness. It recounts the traumatic story of his clandestine journey from El Salvador to the United States after the civil war in El Salvador and his battle with cancer. His sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances and videos reference a cosmology of symbols that link his own journey to the ancient practices of indigenous peoples, to diverse spiritual and popular beliefs, and to contemporary health crises, military catastrophes and the climate crisis.

To find in

  • Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water

17th Lyon Biennale – Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie de Lyon – Grand Hôtel-Dieu

La Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie de Lyon – Grand Hôtel-Dieu

Welcomed in the exhibition spaces of the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie, located at the heart of the Hôtel-Dieu, a heritage site once dedicated to hospitality and care, built in the 15th century and rebuilt according to the plans of Jacques-Germain Soufflot during the 18th century, the artists have conceived works that reflect care and attention to others. They evoke rituals that are sometimes remembered, invented, syncretic, and cross-cultural: rites of healing, incantation, and passage.

  • Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water

Sound healing ceremonies with artist Guadalupe Maravilla

21 & 22 sept.

La Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie de Lyon – Grand Hôtel-Dieu

In his exhibition space, artist Guadalupe Maravilla offers two healing sound ceremonies as a form of mutual aid and care.