BOSE 1995.186 1995.185
By Reuben Keehan
'The God of Small Things' July 2025
These mixed-media works – Judiel’s virgin miracle and Let it bleed 1994 – were produced in Lismore, New South Wales, while Bose was a Visiting Research Fellow at Southern Cross University, and they were featured in a culminating exhibition held at the university’s Art Museum in 1994. Continuing the artist's fascination with religious iconography, the works incorporate images from popular culture and a ‘drawing’ method achieved through solar burning (with the aid of a magnifying glass), rendered in heavily worked surfaces.
The title of Judiel’s virgin miracle refers to a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary atop a guava tree, which a child in the Philippines’ La Union province claimed to have witnessed, and which culminated in a purported visitation that attracted a million followers in 1993. Named for the Rolling Stones album, the work Let it bleed contains a Sator Square – an early two-dimensional Latin palindrome of obscure meaning, which can be read both horizontally and vertically.
Connected objects
Judiel's virgin miracle 1994
- BOSE, Santiago - Creator
Let it bleed 1994
- BOSE, Santiago - Creator