Recreación estética autoetnográfica de una espiritualidad sincrética (vaishnava, cristiana y precolombina) en artes visuales contemporáneas

Abstract

Given the dominance of visual culture in this third millennium, individual beliefs and subjectivities are challenged and even suppressed, as are the most genuine cultural practices of diverse peoples. Thus, the work Back to Home aesthetically recreates a syncretic spirituality of Vaishnava, Christian and pre-Columbian origin, in a contemporary visual creation, the result of an autoethnographic experience. An installation proposal of two pieces located in vertical order was built. The lower level piece represents three concentric elements: the outer element consists of ash (representing the impermanence of matter); The intermediate element represents a volcano with the figure of Virgin Mary on the top (in allusion to material nature and the temazcal: spiritual pre-Hispanic ritual that takes place in a small circular hut, representing the womb of Mother Earth); and the inner element shows, through a small opening, the sacred heart with the image of Radha-Krishna, which symbolizes the ultimate goal of life, returning to God. The piece on the upper level is made up of 7 lotus flowers, on the largest of which is a crucified Jesus Christ, with the Chunucari gold mask and two arms of Vishnu that sprout from below his nailed arms: it is the individual soul that completed the journey of self-realization through sacrifice. The whole provides an aesthetic experience, in which different and often conflicting cultural roots manage to harmonize in communion with the individual. It is a construct of the possibility of individual cultural resistance in these times, in the form of a self-expressive visual manifesto