About the artwork
Guadalupe Maravilla
Requiem for a border crossing of my undocumented father (2018), Tripa Chuca (2018–2020), and Tripa Chuca 2 (2020)
Dimensions(h x w x d): 20" x 30", 30" x 60", 30" x 20"
Ink, paint and graphite on inkjet prints and dehydrated tortillas
Located in Vanport Building,
second floor north corridor lounge
According to artist Guadalupe Maravilla, "Tripa Chuca is a Salvadoran children’s drawing game in which participants draw lines connecting pairs of numbers to form an abstract pattern. This game [on the large mural behind the framed works] was played by two collaborators that share a similar story of migration to form an index of cultural exchange."
About the artist
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary artist who was part of the first wave of undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s. As an homage to his own migratory history, and to that of others, Maravilla makes work that acknowledges the historical and contemporary contexts of immigrant culture notably belonging to Latinx communities. He creates fictionalized performances, videos, sculptures and drawings that incorporate his pre-colonial Central American ancestry, personal mythology, and autobiography.
Through his multidisciplinary studio practice, Maravilla traces the history of his displacement and interrogates the parallels between pre-Columbian cultures and our border politics. He has performed and presented his work extensively in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ICA Miami, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MARTE (El Salvador), Central America Biennial X (Costa Rica), XI Nicaragua Biennial, Performa 11 & 13, Fuse-Box Festival, Exit Art, Smack Mellon, Rubin Foundation and the Drawing Center.
See more of Maravilla's work on his website.
These works were acquired through Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places Program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission.
Banner image: Photo by Stan Narten, courtesy the artist and PPOW.