For this exhibition, Luis Filipe Gomes and I worked together on the concepts of sacred / profane in Ex vote and Reliquary format. This is the text we wrote:
Sacred profane
Sacred, from the Latin "sacratu" refers to something that deserves reverence
or respect for religious association with a deity or with objects regarded as
divine.
In particular, the manifestation of the sacred, can be materialized as a
mountain, be recognized in a clean water source, a colossal stone, an ancient
tree or an unusual object, natural or manufactured, generally perceived by a
prophetic interpreter that reveals the thing or object and detaches it of the
material sphere, transposing it to a sacred one.
In the sacralised archaic world, the understanding of the material and
spiritual phenomena tended to create a dichotomy between the sacred and the
profane.
According to the changes in the ruling power’s way of thinking, the profane
could become sacred and the sacred could be unsacred. The archaic polytheistic
sacredness, expressed in many gods and the diversification and expansion of
secular and scientific knowledge, curiously, were parallel but in reverse
direction, the more areas of knowledge, the less specific gods, culminating a
single god and finally even in the abolition of God. Decreed his death and
confirmed his obsolescence, materialism, took his place.
The world today is desecrated and religiosity exists more out of habit or for
power convenience than for spiritual need. That misconception and that lack of
need only fall apart in extreme situations of suffering or imminent death.
It is then that each one is reunited with the God of his needs and finds what
some call mystery, others faith and others don't even name.
This exhibition reflects on the lack of sacredness and questions which values
to preserve for the future, be they religious, ethical or simply of an intimate
nature.
While interpreters of the value of the ephemeral, observers of the time we live
in, we feel the need to reveal objects, memories, emotions, with the respect
dedicated to that which is sacred.
Sacred, from the Latin "sacratu" refers to something that deserves reverence or respect for religious association with a deity or with objects regarded as divine.
In particular, the manifestation of the sacred, can be materialized as a mountain, be recognized in a clean water source, a colossal stone, an ancient tree or an unusual object, natural or manufactured, generally perceived by a prophetic interpreter that reveals the thing or object and detaches it of the material sphere, transposing it to a sacred one.
In the sacralised archaic world, the understanding of the material and spiritual phenomena tended to create a dichotomy between the sacred and the profane.
According to the changes in the ruling power’s way of thinking, the profane could become sacred and the sacred could be unsacred. The archaic polytheistic sacredness, expressed in many gods and the diversification and expansion of secular and scientific knowledge, curiously, were parallel but in reverse direction, the more areas of knowledge, the less specific gods, culminating a single god and finally even in the abolition of God. Decreed his death and confirmed his obsolescence, materialism, took his place.
The world today is desecrated and religiosity exists more out of habit or for power convenience than for spiritual need. That misconception and that lack of need only fall apart in extreme situations of suffering or imminent death.
It is then that each one is reunited with the God of his needs and finds what some call mystery, others faith and others don't even name.
This exhibition reflects on the lack of sacredness and questions which values to preserve for the future, be they religious, ethical or simply of an intimate nature.
While interpreters of the value of the ephemeral, observers of the time we live in, we feel the need to reveal objects, memories, emotions, with the respect dedicated to that which is sacred.
1 comment:
Beatriz e Filipe Gomes, obrigada. Apreciei muito a leitura deste texto, gosto de pensamentos que me extraem do meu pensar habitual.
Quantas conversas, livros, escritos e desenhos... e muito entendimento para me darem esta leitura tão clara que me leva a lugares tão complexos.
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