Día de Muertos Instillations: Off We Go & The Queen Healer Most Holy Death
Join us in The Armory lobby to appreciate the beautiful Día de Muertos instillations Off We Go & The Queen Healer Most Holy Death by local artists Alejandro IV Barragán & Palma Corral.
Nothing is forever, we like to imagine things should be. Some think we are in the blue eye of a giant. Others think we live on top of a funny turtle. We are on a ball swirling in the dark? We have created names for things we don’t understand. Numbers to measure things we can’t measure. As our sticks are not very long or have enough numbers. So we like to capture in our minds a flow we can touch. But there is nothing in front or behind. Nothing we can see, understand or measure. Nothing streams forever. In time we all eventually, will arrive to the ocean. From time to time some will puddle at the side of a creek, from time to time host by a beaver’s love. Sometimes can be a lake to rest and swirl. We are nothing but a little tread of water, born from rain, from the wind and thunders. And off we go, swirling and swirling in the river of time. Time its the music we built a choreography around. A reminder we are transitional in this place. This is a conceptual installation inspired on the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead. A celebration of life that takes place on November first and second. The tradition was born in the colonial times when Mexico was still not Mexico. Through the years the tradition has evolve adding festive and colorful elements but the essence hasn’t change. This is a day that remind us to honor all those who are no longer here. We are made of memories and stories inherited from past generations, The essence of respect, love, unity and humor infused in this celebration embraces any person, connecting us with the varied forms of love that answer the question of what it means to be human.
Alejandro IV Barragan has been creating Day of the Dead installations for the Armory lobby since 2022. Alejandro is director of oregonmuertos.org project since 2023. For more information about he artist visit Alejandroiv.com.
Palma Corral (American/Mexican, b. 1974 in Chihuahua, Mexico) creates conceptual multidisciplinary art installations using images, objects, organic substances, sounds, text, and video. Her work studies the existential issues of the human experience and its permutations in contemporary life, at times using her own life experience as a metaphorical example of the human condition. She takes both a phenomenological and psychological experimental approach to her installation work and incorporates ideas and symbolic images from history, language, mythology, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, and art.
Palma holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Marylhurst University, and a Master of Arts degree in Mental Health Counseling from Lewis & Clark College. She has a private practice at Evolving Self Integral Counseling as a Professional Counselor Associate.
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