Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983, Michoacán, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn) is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician whose practice investigates beauty and transformation through accumulated, adorned materials. His visual vocabulary draws from classical Catholicism and Mexican vernacular traditions, which he synthesizes into personal mythology. De Nieves constructs works from humble, everyday materials—colored acetate, paper, wood, glue, tape—transforming them into radiant objects integrated into immersive narrative environments. His process mirrors spiritual metamorphosis, reflecting his belief in the poetic potential of language and the symbolic weight of ordinary things. In this exhibition, de Nieves channels tarot's open-ended symbolism and multiple perspectives, resisting rigid meaning by blending figurative and abstract imagery. His stained glass windows reimagine spaces of worship as sites of transformation, while skeleton and horse archetypes signify not death but passage—the renewal that enables insight and inner strength.
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