Ritual

MAY 17 - SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Photography : Halo 2: the revealing by The WYJ Creative — Photography : *Halo 2: the revealing* by The WYJ Creative

Intersect Arts Gallery featured 117 works by 44 artists that explored the phenomenon of ritual. From the sacred to the mundane we contemplated rituals that were personal and corporate, ancient and contemporary, organized and completely of the artist’s invention, spiritual, religious, political and of daily life. We glimpsed rituals that referenced ideas of healing, connection, lament, promise, and protection. We saw rituals of repentance, resistance, and routine.

Rituals feel superfluous in many ways. They are not necessarily necessary. You can eat lunch without ceremony, and it will still nourish your body. Rituals can be practiced with a high degree of intentionality, or they may be absorbed into daily life by rote, carried on from the traditions of past generations. You may have rituals so ingrained in you from birth that you hardly recognize them as separate from your DNA. You may have developed new rituals during this time of Covid. You may love your rituals, you may loathe some of your rituals, you may roll your eyes at some forms of ritualization by others.

These things that we do, these rituals, with ceremony and with repetition, they are not just habits. Rituals are the embellishment of necessity, the soul of why we do what we do. They are the distillation of a universe of intricate and expansive ideas often surpassing comprehension into a tangible, enact-able structure of gestures, words, and objects. They not only nourish our bodies, but are vital to nourish our minds and our souls. Our thriving does depend on them, whether we are conscious of it or not.

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Curated by Intersect’s Executive Director Sarah Bernhardt | The original conception of this exhibition was developed by artist and educator Abby Bennett.

Ritual

MAY 17 - SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

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