Aliento corporal/Corporeal Breath

Aliento corporal/Corporeal Breath is a group show curated by Big Ramp member William Schwaller that explores the interstices of the body and the spiritual in contemporary artistic practices. At a moment in time when culture is as secular and materialistic as it has ever been, the artists and the work in this exhibition offer timely reminders of the millenary relationship between art and spirituality. While materialism and capitalism are certainly omnipresent forces that artists rightfully and variously reject, the artists in the show are also exploring the spiritual dimension of artistic practice itself or turning to the spiritual in order to reclaim ancestral knowledge and beliefs that colonization and displacement sought to eradicate. Skeptical of earlier, postmodern parody and satire levied against organized religions or the capitalistic marketing of spiritual lifestyles by influencers, the artists in this show present their own earnest visual languages of individual and collective spirituality.