Arena is a collection of sculptures that respond to U.S. involvement in Guatemala, and to covert-overt international acts of violence.

The exhibit includes several larger floor sculptures, a collection of smaller structures, paper works and an audio installation. Sculptures in the exhibit are often formed by repetition of a resonant object: Textile braids, standing in for human hair, are organized in a formation of twenty: twenty is one Mayan number for “a body.” Plaster casts mark the space between cupped hands; painted texts mark phrases of Guatemalan poetry alongside code names of military intervention.

The exhibit speaks to our intertwined international histories - often unacknowledged, but increasingly resonant in times of global human rights crises.

The Esvelt Gallery would like to thank the ASCBC for their support.

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