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Whispers  on  the  Horizon
地平線上的低吟

Edgar Calel

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born in 1987, Chi Xot, San Juan Comalapa - lives and works in Chi Xot, San Juan Comalapa

K’obomanik is based on the ceremonial traditions of the Kaqchikel Maya from San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala. Edgar Calel creates a site-specific installation using local stones, placed and lit as offerings to ancestors. Digital screens beneath the stones display glowing firelight, which is reflected in a basin of water below—making the stones appear to shine from within.

　　This quiet gesture is both personal and collective, expressing a longing to remain connected to ancestral knowledge. Calel honors forgotten traditions and creates space for voices that have been silenced.

　　His work is rooted in the Kaqchikel cosmovision—a spiritual worldview—and reflects on themes of community and belonging in the context of ongoing racism in Guatemala.

K’obomanik (Gratitude for everything that lights up and turns off before our eyes), 2025, Stones, rope, soil, ceramics, water and digital screens, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo; and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Commissioned by Taipei Biennial 2025.