Maranata: arte contemporânea, iconolatria e ocultação

Abstract

The present work is constituted as a memorial of the conception and construction of "Maranata", as well as the narratives and references that precede the exhibit. I've given a personal account of experiences that entail my own subjectivity and encompass the symbology of biblical characters and Christian-based religions. Iconolatry and iconoclasm are constant forces that cross my identity and culminate in artworks where censorship and erasure plague the images, in a representation of the absence-presence that also lives in me. Symbols, which are veiled, hidden, or missing, resist in the works, and like Mary, I try to see myself in this world from which I've been removed or to which I've never truly belonged. In this work, the poetic and practical processes are described in detail, so that some veils become less opaque, broadening the range of interpretations for the exhibition.