Socrates Sculpture Park: "Guadalupe Maravilla's 'Planeta Abuelx' Exhibition Opening with Healing Sound Baths" - 5/15/21
![Gaudalupe Maravilla playing a gong, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, and PPOW Gallery. Photo by Sade Armour. [Image Description: A man plays a silver gong with a mallet in a public park on green grass surrounded by trees with pink flowers, green bushes, and the Manhattan skyline. In the reflection of the gong is the man’s face.]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b15a5559772aeb3c1ab5332/1620257127768-PPA8DOFPLVXYNVOV5KYC/gongperformance-2048x1414.jpeg)
Gaudalupe Maravilla playing a gong, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, and PPOW Gallery. Photo by Sade Armour. [Image Description: A man plays a silver gong with a mallet in a public park on green grass surrounded by trees with pink flowers, green bushes, and the Manhattan skyline. In the reflection of the gong is the man’s face.]
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Planeta Abuelx Exhibition Opening
with Healing Sound Baths
Saturday, May 15, 2021
2-6pm EST
Register Here
All are welcome to join at the Park on Saturday, May 15 from 2–6pm for the opening of artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s solo exhibition Planeta Abuelx, featuring new commissions by the artist rooted in ancestral and Indigenous practices of holistic healing.
As part of the exhibition, Maravilla is offering a series of healing sound baths. He discovered the healing properties of sound baths during his treatment for stomach cancer. Now as a cancer survivor, he regularly offers free communal healing sound baths as a form of mutual aid and care. “Human bodies are over 70% water, and the vibration of the gongs can help balance emotional, psychological, and in some cases physical pain,” explains the artist.
At the exhibition opening on Saturday, May 15, Maravilla is offering two 60-minute healing sound baths to pre-registered participants: Healing Sound Bath 1 from 2–3pm and Healing Sound Bath 2 from 5–6pm. To create a healing sound bath, the artist and trained sound healers play gongs, bells, and percussive implements in hypnotic sequences that build into an immersive soundscape.