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Maniac Art Museum, located in 106 Línea Street, Havana

This approach to Spiritism and Eggun, to the
Yoruba religion and its many issues, as well
as to other religious currents, foster that such
an art acquires value even as totem, emblem,
talisman or religious instrument. Such an art
also holds another spiritual value, neither
religious nor aesthetic. It is a sort of "something else" that certain works display by
sending messages from the unknown and the
incomprehensible world. They impact and
startle whenever we come in front of the art
piece. In our superficial, skeptical, and despiritualized environment, finding such
works is a real privilege, but the big problem
is that only society can diagnose the ability,
enterprising spirit and development of their
creators.

Everything outside of the socially designed
track is excluded, dismissed as uncontrolled
or socially inappropriate. The modern society and its bodies are continuously applying
methods for signaling the artistic references
that are not guided by the usual categories,
but it is impossible to marginalize the independent conscience that walks free in the
spiritual realm, with no strings attached, in
order to free the spirit.

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