Marilyn Boror Bor
El futuro que nunca fue, de la serie Nos quitaron la montaña, nos dieron cemento, 2023, Marilyn Boror Bor. Fotografías: Byron Mármol. Cortesía de Fundación Paiz.
(Guatemala |1984)
Marilyn Boror is an indigenous Maya-Kaqchikel multidisciplinary artist originally from San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, who focuses on exploring the concept of identity within a normative context. For this reason, much of her work operates on identifying racist, patriarchal, and colonial structures rooted in contemporary Latin American cultural forms. Her works reject the colonial epistemological system of representation and focus on the power of words as historical triggers of cultural meanings and questions of identity. Her work seeks the preservation and recovery of the languages of the original peoples as a call to rescue the present through new narratives and the study of the past.
