Reconstruction Project

Emma Amos / Frances Buschke / Camille Billops / Josely Carvalho / Catherine Correa / Christine Costan / Colleen Cutschall / Sharon Gilbert / Kathy Grove / Marina Gutierrez / Virgina Jaramillo / Kazuko / Sabra Moore / Helen Oji / Catalina Parra / Linda Peer / Liliana Porter / Jaune Smith / Nancy Spero / Hooly Zox - The Reconstruction Project is a collaborative exhibition of artworks made by twenty women artist from North and South America, and was conceived and organized by New York artist Sabra Moore. The Reconstruction Project commemorates four Mayan Codices which survived the massive bookburning undertaken by the Bishop of the Yucatan in 1562. The artists have reconstructed a Mayan codex in the same form as one of the most beautiful surviving books, the Dresden Codex, and each artist has also contributed a large-scale wall work. The Reconstruction Project was originally exhibited as part of “Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America”’; it attempts to “symbolically re-knit the broken history in a belief in the connection between consciousness and action.”