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Article: Spirit world
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- The Village Voice
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- July 6, 1999
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Since his last New York show, Jose media's personal cosmography has grown increasingly c The Cuban-born artist has long studied Indigenous faiths more as an acolyte than an anthropologist always searching for shared traits. In Miami, his home since 1993, media is a priest in the AfroCuban religion Palo Monte, which honors spirits that eschew Cities. Fortunately for city dwellers, Bedia is currently featured in three New York shows.
In addition to an installation in Animal Anima.Animus" at P.S. I (through September 11), Bedia has solo exhibitions at two Manhattan galleries. At Annina Nosei (530 West 22nd Street, through July 16), Bedia has constructed a shrine to his syncretic vision. A ...