Title
Madre e hija (Mother and Daugther)
Subject
Mother and Daughter
45x45 inches
The Sources of Generational Violence
"Richie Morales' work delves into three sources: the present, memory, and history. Regarding the present, his work is documentarial but what he finds in the tragic everyday life is intimately connected with what he remembers and with history.
In the series Voices of Genocide (2011), he literally digs into the earth and finds in the first geological stratum the stark signs of the violence from the internal war, a war that had no victors, only victims.
From there, digging becomes a metaphor leading him to deeper layers of history and equally violent and macabre discoveries: the Guatemala we know and suffer is built on and through violence. Reflecting on this, Richie Morales looks with anguish at the future that awaits us, —and from his profound and total pessimism, he extracts a hopeful warning— unless, he seems to say, we face history head-on and learn from it.
Guatemala's present is intrinsically connected to our past; it is essential to locate our historical compass to understand our current environment."
Text by: Juan B. Juárez
45x45 inches
The Sources of Generational Violence
"Richie Morales' work delves into three sources: the present, memory, and history. Regarding the present, his work is documentarial but what he finds in the tragic everyday life is intimately connected with what he remembers and with history.
In the series Voices of Genocide (2011), he literally digs into the earth and finds in the first geological stratum the stark signs of the violence from the internal war, a war that had no victors, only victims.
From there, digging becomes a metaphor leading him to deeper layers of history and equally violent and macabre discoveries: the Guatemala we know and suffer is built on and through violence. Reflecting on this, Richie Morales looks with anguish at the future that awaits us, —and from his profound and total pessimism, he extracts a hopeful warning— unless, he seems to say, we face history head-on and learn from it.
Guatemala's present is intrinsically connected to our past; it is essential to locate our historical compass to understand our current environment."
Text by: Juan B. Juárez
Description
"You can only heal that which you are willing to see" . Richie Morales., Guatemalan artist based in Winconsin, USA .
Morales art evokes visceral responses, capturing the profound scars inflicted on the indigenous people of Guatemala by the violence they endured. I
Morales art evokes visceral responses, capturing the profound scars inflicted on the indigenous people of Guatemala by the violence they endured. I
Creator
Richie Morales