# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B11nA79JNks
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044391-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-08-31T18:00:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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“Open Sessions 2018-20: What's Love Got to Do with It?" on-view through Sept 15 is the full-museum exhibition of the third cycle of The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program -  a two-year artists’ residency with thirty one participants from around the world. Featuring new work by Open Session artists, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” will include works on paper, video, multimedia and sculpture, as well as installation, all of which place contemporary drawing at the center of an evolving conversation about love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Guadalupe Maravilla’s Vampire Empire is part of an ongoing series of drawings that examine the geography of his own migratory route from El Salvador into the United States as an undocumented unaccompanied child immigrant. Maravilla uses sixteenth-century manuscripts from Mexico as a starting point to depict pre-Hispanic events and the post conquest time period, which was a pivotal moment for migration and colonization. His aim is to link past and present diasporic communities by retracing his own migration route in relation to the expulsion of native peoples from those same lands. After scanning and digitally appropriating the original manuscripts, Maravilla plays tripa chuca, a Salvadoran children’s drawing game, with other undocumented immigrants on top of the newly drawn manuscripts. In the game, participants draw lines connecting pairs of numbers. The outcome serves as an index of a cultural exchange and a collaboration between individuals recounting a common story of migration.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Open Sessions is a two-year program which provides opportunities for selected artists to contextualize work and ideas through exhibitions, public programs, and critical dialogue, organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal, Open Sessions Curators.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#OpenSessions #drawingcenter #Guadalupe Maravilla i_go_by_lupe_now rsoairo lisasigal ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Guadalupe Maravilla, “Vampire Empire,” 2019. Archival inkjet print and pen on paper. Courtesy of the artist.

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