Pequeños suspiros (Little sighs) brings together nine miniature paintings by Andrés Curruchich (1891–1966), presented in a lesser-known format that invites audiences to encounter a new and more intimate dimension of his work.

Curruchich was a self-taught artist who is now regarded as one of the most influential figures in Guatemalan art history. He rose from working as a farmer and house painter to becoming the precursor of a foundational artistic movement in his hometown of San Juan Comalapa (Chi Xot). Through his own painting practice—and later by establishing a local painting school where he taught other men in his community—Curruchich single-handedly initiated what would become the Comalapa artistic tradition.

As the first Maya Kaqchikel artist in Guatemala to explicitly describe himself as a painter, Curruchich was long misclassified as a naïve or folkloric artist. Today, however, his work is recognized as a sophisticated body of visual documentation that rigorously records both the sacred and the everyday life of his community, including religious practices, daily activities, and Kaqchikel culture and identity—elements inseparable from his art.