Despeja Obsidiana by Gubia

Maureen Gubia – Artist in Residence (September 23 – October 18, 2025)

The artist in residence will present to the public, this Saturday, October 18, the work developed during her stay at the MAAC, where she has transformed the residency space into a sound laboratory.

Maureen will share her research process in the MAAC’s anthropological reserve, from which the field recordings that make up her new album of original music, Despeja Obsidiana, originate. The album was composed and edited in Ableton Live 11. These pieces merge pre-Hispanic sounds with contemporary electronic landscapes, generating an immersive and visionary experience.

During the opening, the artist will also perform a live painting session with models, integrating her pictorial practice with the sonic dimension of her work.

Additionally, this event is an opportunity for the audience to learn more about our Artist in Residence program and to take part in the activation of this sound installation, which will remain open for one week in the MAAC art space.

About the Reserve:
Visiting the MAAC’s anthropological reserve is like entering a labyrinth of memory. Guided by attentive custodians, the experience allows visitors to closely encounter the musical and ceremonial artifacts of the ancestral cultures of Ecuador’s coast: ritual clay objects, mother-of-pearl ornaments, obsidian mirrors, spondylus shell funerary masks, and sculptures carved from whale vertebrae.

One is struck by the delicacy of the conservation and restoration work, as well as the activities devoted to recreating replicas that bring this ancestral knowledge into the present. More than a collection, the reserve safeguards echoes of rituals, times, and sounds that continue to vibrate in silence.

Maureen Gubia (b.1984 Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an artist with creative outlets including painting and music recordings; the latter which started in 2006.

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