Catalogue Exhibition │Millepiani
Posted on July 27 2023
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RITUALS
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When the Church chose to abandon us, the Inner Critic replaced the Most High. The Veil highlights the learned act of repetitive thoughts, or prayer, as a means of isolation and subordination.
- L. A. R., K. D.
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The contrast of Mary, a symbol of divine obedience, with brain scans of depression is referenced through color and form. Symmetry in motifs and phrases paradoxes the spiritual outcome of prayer to an idol versus the Inner Critic.
- L. A. R., K. D.
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This picture, taken from my ‘Mother and daughter’ project, evokes a moment of intimate connection and mutual trust, in osmosis with the Water element. This ritual of immersion in water, a source of regeneration and liberation, invites the young woman to abandon herself, floating, in the cradling and protective arms of her mother, inducing a return to the original place and bond.
- M. E.
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Marielle depicts a landscape full of the sensations of the first time, through her initial encounter with the Australian bush. Transported to a land eager to impart its history to her, the artist explores an unfamiliar terrain, transcending boundaries between the conscious and the subconscious. Engaging with themes of dislocation and discovery, First Encounter aims to evoke a visceral response, echoing the spiritual traditions of Australia's First Peoples.
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This work is about ancient ritual in relation to water. Water is a mystical element that stirs the primordial energy of creation. To engage the life force of water, a creation that absorbs so much, yet releases so much— to immerse in something so alive and vibrant, is to enact the vital life force inside the human, to stir the memory that there is always new creation, imagination, dreams and prophecies to be lived, through any darkness on earth.
- L. L.
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It is part of a personal narrative exploring the female experience within the dynamics of hierarchy in contemporary society, shaped by the legacy of colonial ideologies. It metaphorically and poetically envisions the experience of the African diaspora, brought under conditions of enslavement to the shared island between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a journey through the forces that oppress us and the liberating power of uncovering them.
- J. A. V.
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I have been interested in religious cults, sects, traditions for many years. But most of all, the rituals that no one knows. The ones buried deep. A few years ago, I first heard about "Benin shamanism" - a strange form of spiritual practice that supposedly came to Russia through Buryatia. It sounded like nonsense. But the more I searched, the more it all came together.
- M. A.
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I have been interested in religious cults, sects, traditions for many years. But most of all, the rituals that no one knows. The ones buried deep. A few years ago, I first heard about "Benin shamanism" - a strange form of spiritual practice that supposedly came to Russia through Buryatia. It sounded like nonsense. But the more I searched, the more it all came together.
- M. A.
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A micro-short film that playfully follows the twin rituals of martial arts practice and the flight of birds.
- K. S.
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‘Symbolic, Self-Portrait’ is part of a series that explores the metaphysical nature of photography and the unseen forces that shape both image and identity. Through embracing ambiguity and denying exposure - both as artist and subject - I move beyond surface appearances to create a space where meaning emerges through the shifting contours of perception, experience, and imagination.
- J. T.
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In my works, I explore the cemetery as a physical space deeply rooted in ritual practices, a place of human comfort and connection, and a medium through which individuals address the deceased via religious symbols.
- J. K.
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We light the candles on the grave of grandparents to soothe the absence of graves for our daughters.
- N. E.
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"Here" is what you are thinking about.... At the center of your life you are "Here".... Everything you want to happen is also "Here"..... There is always "Here" somewhere...
T. G.
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This 27-meter spiral staircase, hidden within Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal, never served as a water source. Instead, it was a stage for esoteric initiations inspired by Templar and Masonic rites. Blindfolded initiates descended its nine levels—echoing Dante's Inferno or the Templars' founders—into darkness before emerging toward light and symbolic rebirth. A ceremonial trip inward, this well invites contemplation on spiritual transition, mystery, and change.
- N. T.
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Miserere Velatae is a project that internalizes mourning as an essential need of feeling. The Procession of the Desolata responds to this need, a testimony of the human condition, in which the ritual preserves memory and union. The ritual becomes an echo of memories that, otherwise, would be dispersed into fragments - splinters of that wood of which the cross is composed, the bond between the earthly and the otherworldly.
- S. F.
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‘The Farm’ demonstrates the hardships of life on a small-scale Cornish farm, from the interwoven first-person perspective of both humans and animals. The project depicts Francois and Beatrice’s journey into small holding. They possess almost no commercial aspirations yet share a profound ardour for fresh, organic food. This is a timeless place with no sense of order. A place of compassion and occasional brutality, but never cruelty.
- W. N.
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A photo from my series "Poetic Shock", beginning as a project as my family’s childhood pet, Ruby, developed an atrophied leg muscle in Spring of 2024. During this time I discovered a twin-lens reflex camera I used as a teenager to document the changing seasons, experiencing her death, and changing family dynamics.
- J. H.
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In the silence of a domestic moment, some details can become pure form: soapy hair, collected in a spiral reminiscent of the golden ratio, a symbol of harmonious proportion, reveal perfection even in daily rituals, in a poetic and timeless visual meditation on the natural beauty of forms.
- E. R.
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This photo was taken on the eve of the winter solstice. The wheel of the year is turning and people are participating in rituals to feel connected to nature and its rhythms, to be part of the world around them.
- V. S.
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“Will-o'-the-Wisp”, a wandering and ethereal light, guides travelers and lost souls through forests, swamps and clearings. It confuses the natural and the psychic, illuminating a dark path, giving a hand to a symbolic struggle of loss. We follow uncertain trails where the visible and the invisible intersect, where those who travel alone feed on memory and its reinventions that give body to presences that are no longer there.
- B. L.
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In a hut, among dense trees, sweating rocks and fields on the banks of the river, the archetype of the hermit appears. This ancient spirit is fragmented into a diffuse entity, as if memory, in its process of erosion, summoned up its figure on strange faces. The hermit, too, is omnipresent, sometimes hiding behind trunks, sometimes reincarnated in the fluttering leaves.
- B. L.
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The echo is broken by a branch. Time freezes. Voices resound, recalling death and what remains afterwards - what is repeated and what is transformed. On this journey we are guided by lights that flicker in the distance, by figures that inhabit the border between the natural and the spectral. An essay on the persistence of absence, and on how forgetfulness creates new presences.
- B. L.
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The solemn and curious act of selection precedes everything in art making. I sanded down a thumb shaped niche in a block of pinewood over several months as an intentional act of devotion. I shifted consciousness through meditation, searched the woods for bones and branches until I gathered everything for a ceremonial ritual. I build altars to ourselves, celebrating the duality of the enduring yet delicate human experience.
- E. S. K.
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In this project, there is an attempt, from an ontological perspective, to travel back in time to the Neolithic period of the Iberian Peninsula, establishing a connection between artificial constructions and their symbolic value in relation to animism.
- A. L.
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