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From the Archives: How José Bedia Blends Religious Traditions in His Art, and His Life
IN HIS AFRICANCIVILIZATIONS in the New World (1971), Roger Bastide noted a “spiritual void” in the cities of the modem Western world. Hence, as he put it, “the European [as well as the black person] turns to [the religions of] Africa or Black America for the satisfaction of vital needs which industrial society can no longer answer.” It is certainly tme that from the dance court of the Candomble Gantois (a traditional place of worship on a hill for those who follow Yoruba gods in Bahia) to the Campo de Mayombé (a religious center off Avenida Independencia in Havana where Kongo spirits are invoked), I see essentially the same intent white women and white men. They bring intimate problems of love and social dislocation for black priestesses and priests to hear and, hopefully, resolve, by the authority granted them by the saints and the spirits.
The mother of José Bedia was one of these Jose bedia!