Video: The art of healing by word. Medical and literary art project Poesia um Santo Remedio
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All diseases will be healed by the kind doctor Aibolit. And if Aibolit does not cope with its injections, pills, candles and potions … You will have to turn to alternative medicine, but not the one that suggests brewing or insisting herbs, but even more unconventional, based on the ancient the art of word healing … After all, as they say, you can kill with a word, you can heal, or you can revive. This is how the Brazilian artist proposes to treat non-healing wounds on the heart, in the soul or in the head. Larissa minghin, which, in addition to painting, is very good at the art of writing poetry. Her medical and literary art project Poesia um santo remedio is the very miracle medicine that can heal those wounds that conventional pills cannot do. We are not always able to control our mood and state of mind when emotions are bursting out, and traditional medicines cannot do this. Therefore, Larissa Minghin proposed an alternative method. So now there is an answer to the request "doctor, prescribe a pill, I have a pill for love", because Poesia um Santo Remedio pills are designed to treat just such diseases, and also from a broken heart, for reconciliation, for fun, from melancholy, from experiences for children …
The tablets are divided by topic and sorted into jars, which are accompanied by the corresponding instructions. Each jar contains about 15 transparent "pills" with multicolored leaves carefully folded and packed in these capsules with corresponding haiku, written either by the artist herself or by other poets connected by her to an unusual art project. For those who are not satisfied with the course in one bottle of poetic medicine, Larissa Minghin offers an enhanced portion of Poesia um Santo Remedio, a large white case with a double portion of art preparations.
If creative treatment of mental wounds becomes popular, Larissa Minghin suggests making additional “cures” to order. For example, for those who are going to give birth or get married, for those entering universities or passing final exams, for a declaration of love or an offer of friendship, for those who are bored, and for those who want to wish them happiness …
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