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�ձ�dzپ���ܲ���á�� meets Café Tacvba, a playful merger of ancient Mesoamerican civilization and a 1990s rock en español band in suitably fractured light.

Like �ձ�dzپ���ܲ���á�� and Café Tacvba, her exhibition looks into formative images and experiences from the past, glimpsed through a Chicana lens.

The piece, which is characterized by an earth-colored mix of unfinished concrete that both complements and contrasts with the building, is imprinted with pieces of Castillo Deball’s feathered serpent drawings inspired by ancient murals from �ձ�dzپ���ܲ���á��, Mexico.

The ancient Mesoamerican city of �ձ�dzپ���ܲ���á��, located in modern-day Mexico, and the Maya city of Tikal, also located in Petén, were both larger and more influential than the relative backwater of Chochkitam.

“But if you read between the lines, that’s what it means—these were vassals, probably of Tikal directly and �ձ�dzپ���ܲ���á�� indirectly.”