Yellow Peril Gallery Presents "32 Ghosts" by Toby Barnes at The Drawing Room, in Conjunction with LANAs Sixth Annual Conference in Providence
Summary
Providence, RI, August 06, 2015 --( 32 Ghosts is inspired by an indigenous ritual that takes places in Laos and Northeastern Thailand (Issan) called Baci Su Kwan.In this ceremony — which usually marks an important event such as a birth, wedding, graduation, or becoming a monk — a community invokes the “kwan,” the 32 spirits believed to inhabit a person’s body and correspond to their 32 organs.This artistic practice is complex and involves a pedestal encasing banana leaves, candles, flowers, and other fruit and food offerings, along with a series of strings that are attached to the person celebrated and to the members of the community.The opening reception will be hosted by Yellow Peril Gallery, the Laotian Community Center of Rhode Island and the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA), in conjunction with LANA’s sixth annual national conference in Providence in 2015.32 Ghosts is inspired by an indigenous ritual that takes places in Laos and Northeastern Thailand (Issan) called Baci Su Kwan.In this ceremony — which usually marks an important event such as a birth, wedding, graduation, or becoming a monk — a community invokes the “kwan,” the 32 spirits believed to inhabit a person’s body and correspond to their 32 organs.