Xibalbá

Xibalbá explores displacements from the perspective of returning home, the dualities and tensions that arise in the process. For native Mayas, Xibalbá is the underworld: a dark place where most seeds die to produce life, a place for transformation.

Xibalbá explores displacements from the perspective of returning home, the dualities and tensions that arise in the process. The project emerges from the need to get back to Guatemala (my homeland) after twenty years living abroad. Fascinated with Popol Vuh (The mayan native cosmovision) and the novel "Time commences in Xibalbá" by the Kaqchikel writer Luis de Lión I also delved deeper into Mayan native people's displacements history and their interpretation of what is the underworld, Xibalbá: a place where most of the seeds die to produce life, a place for transformations.