Arquitectura de Voces: La Fuerza de lo Sepultado
March 10 / May 15, 2021
La Galería Rebelde, Guatemala City.
This exhibition by Guatemalan artist Marlov Barrios is a closure process for him, presenting work made during the lockdown of 2020, a clash of different voices within him that he discovers in this new body of work. Showing painting, drawings and, for the first time, intervened photographs, the exhibition creates a dialogue between childhood and adulthood, and a reflection on architecture as the place that holds us as a sanctuary but also as a place for collaboration. Also part of the exhibition is a series of portable mosaics that represent multiple symbols of the miscegenation. As all Barrios’ previous work, the pieces provoke a dialogue between three different moments in art and architecture that have formed our current latin american identity; the prehispanic past, the colonization and the modern and contemporary world with its technology and pop culture. Juxtaposition, conversation, emotions and memory are the common thread for an exhibition shared by the artist after the confinement.