A painting ceremony set inside an abandoned Portuguese chapel, working through an iconographic mosaic that echoes Pre-Columbian history and its anthropomorphic forms. These symbols of spirituality become the stage for a live performance by composer Sergio Jaramillo Arango, who weaves together elements of prayer and environment into a sonic space that surrounds the work with a sacred aura.
The ritual runs for forty minutes and closes with ten minutes of collective silence — the ceremony built around that endpoint. The work inverts the Catholic structure of confession: absolution is offered without requiring disclosure, returning the gathering to the people in the room rather than to the institution. The silence at the end is not a resolution but a shared space, where everyone present briefly becomes part of the same thing.
