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Stefan Benchoam

THE BURNING OF THE DEVIL

Diablo Rosso and Proyectos Ultravioleta
With the participation of:

Gustavo Araujo
Fabrizio Arrieta
Giancarlo Scaglia
Jonathan Harker
Jose Castrellón
Jose Vera Matos
Stefan Benchoam
Rachel de Joode

In addition: dancing, video projections and popular parafernalia.

Guatemala City, Guatemala
December 07, 2011 - January 11, 2012

An exhibition and magic-religious celebration to get rid of  impurities and cast away from us all kinds of evil.

December 7th, 2011

Proyectos Ultravioleta presents an exhibition of its gallery friend Diablo Rosso (Panama City); that with the occasion of the ‘quema del diablo’ (burning of the devil – Guatemalan ritual to ward off evil and purify the spirit by burning old belongings) proposes a series of works that approach ideas about good, evil, divine and pagan.

Human beings are born with the possibility of harboring in our interior all feelings – positive and negative – that are naturally inherent to us. If everything negative could be cleansed with the simple performance of a rite, the human being would no longer be human, it would be God! That which transmutes matter into something magical is the intention with which faith uses energy; hence, works by artists who reflect on the power of intention and the possibilities of the subject to carry out those intentions have been selected. In addition, the notions of divine and pagan are evaluated and the idea of ​​purification is celebrated to finish the year renewed and with a clean soul.

Other exhibitions by Stefan Benchoam at Proyectos Ultravioleta: