Marilyn Boror Bor - Peinar las Raíces II

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Marilyn Boror Bor - Peinar las Raíces II

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From the Buried Rituals series

TITLE (English): Comb the Roots II

YEAR: 2022

MEDIUM: Concrete and threads

SIZE: Dimensions variable (set of 7)

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Marilyn Boror Bor (San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, 1984) is a Mayan-Kaqchikel artist whose practice challenges patriarchy and racism through various mediums, including  photography, painting, printmaking, installation and performance. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and currently continues to live and work in Guatemala. 

She was a Fellow of the Utopia Foundation (Spain, 2016), a three-time recipient of the Espira/La Espora Residency for Emerging Central American Artists grant from Nicaragua (2011—2014), and has participated in residencies and conferences in the United States, Central America, Mexico, Germany, Chile, and Spain. Her work has been presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (San Juan), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Galerie im körnerpark (Berlin), WhiteBOX (Munich), the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (California), the Museo Precolombino de Arte Chileno (Santiago) and the NUMU (Guatemala), among others. 

She participated in the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo del Sur, Guatemala, in 2021, the Bienal en Resistencia, Guatemala, in 2018 and 2021, and the Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala, in 2014, 2016, and 2021. In 2022, he was featured in Prime - Art's Next Generation by Phaidon, a publication compiling “the most exciting rising stars in contemporary art” that featured 107 artists born since 1980.