#mary-magdalene

#mary-magdalene

The painting depicts the titular saint, her face turned upward, "going through the throes of change from a secular life to one of devotion", says the curator. Shown without her usual attributes of a skull or an ointment jar, or any other signs of penitence, Mary Magdalene is instead depicted in a state of near undress, a shoulder provocatively exposed.

Nieves González recomposes the story of Mary Magdalene through the symbols that always surrounded her: hair, chalice, cave, blood. She thus recovers the disciple, the messenger, the spiritual force that history preferred to silence.Sacred Hair / Capelli Sacri is conceived as an altarpiece where the classical and the contemporary dialogue to reveal the hidden. Structured from pictorial tradition, González remakes established canons from her perspective as a contemporary woman:

Structured from pictorial tradition, González remakes established canons from her perspective as a contemporary woman: the sacred passes through the filter of a contemporary aesthetic vision without ceasing to be mystery, transforming into something simultaneously recognizable and radically new. The exhibition invites us to rewrite the narrative from creation itself, a gesture born from respect toward that generative power that was denied and distorted for centuries.

She is one of the most significant women in the Bible. But what did Mary Magdalene really look like? In Western art and film such as the 2018 film 'Mary Magdalene', starring Rooney Mara she is depicted as young and beautiful, wearing clothes that show off her shapely figure. But in art of the East, Mary is harder spot, since she looks like other women heavily veiled.