— Tomás Redrado Art
Miami, USA
PURPLE SPELL
Santiago Paredes y Briggette Hoffman
In Purple Spell, the enchantment can be seen within the halls of Tomás Redrado Art Gallery, where Brigette Hoffman and Santiago Paredes blur the lines between reality and fiction, presenting us with familiar scenes made strange, ghostly doodles, walls dyed violet, a table that seems possible, twisted from one angle, yet entirely believable from another, a gigantic vase, fruits that appear almost monstrous, witches, and haunted houses. Clearly, gods have passed through, and the artists have captured them on canvas, walls, and objects, domesticating the sublime, that which we mortals cannot see, into a new reality.
We are social, cultural, fictional beings, characters in a story, both participants and spectators, our own gods. Brigette Hoffman and Santiago Paredes spread their purple spell and transform art and domestic intimacy into divine fiction. May the spell take effect, may the paintings return us to reality, may it be magic.
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— Tomás Redrado Art
Miami, USA
PURPLE SPELL
Santiago Paredes y Briggette Hoffman
In Purple Spell, the enchantment can be seen within the halls of Tomás Redrado Art Gallery, where Brigette Hoffman and Santiago Paredes blur the lines between reality and fiction, presenting us with familiar scenes made strange, ghostly doodles, walls dyed violet, a table that seems possible, twisted from one angle, yet entirely believable from another, a gigantic vase, fruits that appear almost monstrous, witches, and haunted houses. Clearly, gods have passed through, and the artists have captured them on canvas, walls, and objects, domesticating the sublime, that which we mortals cannot see, into a new reality.
We are social, cultural, fictional beings, characters in a story, both participants and spectators, our own gods. Brigette Hoffman and Santiago Paredes spread their purple spell and transform art and domestic intimacy into divine fiction. May the spell take effect, may the paintings return us to reality, may it be magic.
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