Featuring a dazzling array of prints, drawings, costumes, sculpture, video, and a performance, this exhibition addresses the political and personal histories of Guatemala’s long civil war. Building on Ramírez-Figueroa’s research on Latin American theater, Lugar de Consuelo is inspired by the history of the revolutionary play El Corazón del espantapájaros (Heart of the Scarecrow), written by the playwright Hugo Carrillo in 1962.

An installation of Ramírez-Figueroa’s costumes and props, as well as watercolor sketches and a film of a prior performance, staged at the Universidad Popular de Guatemala, where the censored production took place, will be on view in the Kravis Studio. The exhibition will culminate in the first New York performances of Lugar de Consuelo. Based on the five characters from Carillo’s work—an oligarch, a president, a soldier, a priest, and a scarecrow—the new script, written in collaboration with poet Wingston González, imagines a new, mythical narrative.