“A Short History of Architecture in Guatemala” at the Guggenheim

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s “A Short History of Architecture in Guatemala” (“Breve Historia de la Arquitectura en Guatemala,” 2010), is a dance to marimba music, performed initially in costumes—a Mayan pyramid, a colonial church, a modernist block. It examines the tendency of architecture to memorialize indigenous, colonialist, and modernist regimes, and their related histories of exploitation. This work was activated by the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle and performed at the museum on May 5, 2017.