05/14/2026
The art world is experiencing a spiritual revival -
Not as religion
but as perception.
I am seeing it everywhere at the Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
In auxiliary exhibits and gallery’s.
Artists exploring ritual, presence, ecology, embodiment, grief, joy, devotion, light, frequency, and collective experience.
A deeper search for meaning, connection and consciousness through art.
As I visit Black Madonna, I am not ignoring the colonialism of the church, I am tracing a lineage further back in history- in what existed before and beyond institutional control—
That enduring relationship between creativity, symbolism, ritual, embodiment, and the feminine.
📸 Judy Chicago with Andriano Berango by Donald Woodman