RU RAXAL QA RAYB’äL (El verdor de nuestro deseo)

Ru Raxal qa Rayb’äl (The Green of Our Desire) responds to La Nueva Fábrica’s 2024-2025 exhibition cycle through a series of living and ever-changing installations that bring into proximity diverse notions and practices of healing. The resulting project stands as an offering created by Calel to welcome LNF’s publics into a space of contemplation and sentipensar (sensing-thinking) that activates multiple forms of sense-making.

The artworks and installations presented stem from, in the artist’s words, “Practices that were never forgotten by the communities in our territories. These practices never ceased to exist and continue to be at the center of life.” The resulting artworks are invitations to pursue forms of intimate, communal, and societal healing.

The title of the exhibition refers to the desire to “return” to a natural environment that is a source of knowledge, spirituality, nourishment, and protection, despite the plundering of land, water, and landscape that has been constitutive of 500 years of colonial dynamics in Guatemala and beyond.

Ru Raxal qa Rayb’äl offers a path of interconnected moments of contemplation and intimacy that are relational in nature. The exhibition does not seek to create a mere representation of spirituality to be consumed through the act of looking, but rather invites publics to come into proximity with forms of communal care based on reciprocity.

The project is curated by Edgar Calel and Ilaria Conti, La Nueva Fábrica’s Executive Director, in close collaboration with the Calel family and La Nueva Fábrica’s (LNF) team.

La Nueva Fábrica
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Guatemala

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