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    Stephanie Seidel, “Catching Spirits: Betye Saar’s Installations”

    Merging ritual and spirituality with autobiography, the African American experience, and traditions of the African diaspora, artist Betye Saar’s practice traverses art historical categories. Since the 1980s, Saar (b. 1926, Los Angeles) has created more than forty installations that draw on syncretic visual languages—from Haitian Vodou flags and Greco-Roman constellations to Asian scroll paintings and the vernacular aesthetics of the American South. The lecture by Stephanie Seidel, entitled “Catching Spirits” traces Saar’s installations as a ritual practice that assembles historically charged fragments and cosmologies into ever-shifting constellations.

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