Marilyn Boror Bor
Marilyn Boror Bor (b. 1984, Guatemala) is an Indigenous Maya-Kaqchikel artist working across multiple media, including painting, photography, printmaking, installation, and performance art.
Their research focuses on an ongoing exploration of identity as something shaped and regulated by context; consequently, much of their work centers on identifying racist, patriarchal, and colonial structures embedded in contemporary cultural forms—particularly those that underpin the construction of contemporary Latin American history.
In this regard, their work seeks to expose the fissures within a colonial system of epistemological representation that maintains territorial control over language—whether spoken or graphic—to preserve power. Their artistic projects therefore focus on constant analysis and critique aimed at preserving and reclaiming Indigenous languages, alongside the ways of thinking and feeling embodied in their cosmogonies.
They focus on the power of words to trigger cultural meanings and questions regarding identity; their work is a call to reclaim the present by understanding an ancient past that has been rendered invisible and fragmented, utilizing both the spoken word and their own body as a political space for denunciation and resistance.
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