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Bernardo Sarría, artist and worshiper
The syncretic religious practices of Afro- Cuban origin, which were branded as retrogressive by the scientific thinking in the past, show a constant present in the discourse of Cuban art. The perspectives assumed by women like Magdalena Campos, Martha Maria Perez and Belkis Ayon have moved the veil of gender controversy at the center of“ the black issue” in parallel with the discrimination of women. The project known as the Maniac Art Museum( MAM) was developed between 2012 and 2014 as an autonomous space of visual arts. In addition to financially support artists and curators, MAM is a traveling museum and it disseminates the kind of artistic works that define and differentiate expressive forces and themes with plenty of emotional, fragile, troubled, prohibited or secluded issues, which includes Spiritism, witchcraft and dangerous minds.
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