During his Mindscapes New York residency at Brooklyn Museum, Guadalupe continued his exploration of healing from displacement and generational trauma, and the intimate links between bodily and mental health.
Guadalupe draws from his personal experience as a cancer survivor and from his displacement - due to the 1984 civil war in El Salvador - to the United States to shape his multidisciplinary practice of sculpture, performance, video, and ritual.
For Mindscapes, Guadalupe’s exhibition ‘Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven’ at the Brooklyn Museum addresses these themes of displacement and healing across generations through his large scale sculptures, items from the museum's Mayan collection, and video of a workshop with undocumented teens in detention, as well as a Healing Room designed by teens involved in the Museum's work-study program.
He also worked closely with a number of collaborators through a microeconomic exchanges that center marginalized communities to develop content for this exhibition.